Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.

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.

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

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.

Innocents don't learn from their sins; the chastened are informed by them.

You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

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

I live my life and make mistakes and sin every single day... but that's what grace is for.

To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.

He who is penitent is almost innocent.

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

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won't need a third.

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

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.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.