Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

All the things I've done are about duty and guilt: trying to do your best to better other people's lives.

Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.

The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?

There is no such way to be even with the devil and his instruments, for all their spite against us, as by doing what good we can wherever we be come.

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.

Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

It's always nice to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see that you helped somebody's life... even if only a little bit.

Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.

If we can refrain from harming others in our actions & words, we can start to give serious attention to actively doing good.

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you.

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could announce a motive of lofty purpose. I've been accused of compassion, of altruism, of devotion to Christian, Hebrew, and Muslim ethic, but however desperate I am to claim ownership of a high ideal, I cannot. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck; the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

Tryna forgive you for abandonin me Prayin but I think I'm still an angel away