Otto Weininger Quotes

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

In order to properly repent, he who has sinned against the public must make public reparation.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

Penitence must precede pardon.

People make mistakes in life. You shouldn't have to live with that for the rest of your life. I believe in redemption. I'm an Irish Catholic, and I just think it's the right thing to do.

I'm Christian. I've made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances.

Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

I've done things that weren't good, you know, but I made up for my mistakes.

True atonement isn't the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all: not making the same stupid mistake again.

I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.

Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

We need to ask God for forgiveness and do all we can to correct whatever harm our actions may have caused. Repentance means a change of mind and heart—we stop doing things that are wrong, and we start doing things that are right. It brings us a fresh attitude toward God, oneself, and life in general.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.