Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

I just hope I'll live to 60, and then I'll turn to the Lord and say, 'I'm ready for you now. I got all the time in the world to start making it up to you now.'

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

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.

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

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.

After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

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.

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

You can't make up for something you lost.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.'

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

I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

I've done a lot of things that I regret.

We all have things in life we'd do over again.