Josh Billings Quotes

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

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.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

I've become a master of the apology.

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

I never challenged the ICC verdict. This means I accepted my punishment. It is mentioned in Islamic law that you have got to be punished if you commit a mistake. What is important is that I have learnt my lesson.

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

I've been a sinner and a saint. If you've been a saint all your life, it's pretty easy to sleep at night. If you've been a sinner, you're just as comfortable in it.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

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.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.