Sara Teasdale Quotes

Everything 'Atonement' does, it does incredibly well, including depicting characters of varying ages and temperaments and showing the intensity of early romantic love and connection and the very different intensity of haunting regret.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

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 don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.

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.

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

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!

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

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

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

Hopefully America will forgive me.

You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.

Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.

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.

I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.