Brian Lumley Quotes

'Atonement' is one of my all-time favourite movies.

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

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

There are no unforgivable sins.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

I am not sorry for my crime.

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

Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.'

We know that we've done and said things that hurt people. Inflicting pain on others wasn't the goal, but it was one of the outcomes. We wish it weren't so, and regret that hurt.