Sharon Kay Penman Quotes

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

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

When you make a mistake—a big mistake, you’re going to have to apologize—a lot!

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

I like to believe in the good in people. But we're all going to screw up from time to time. It just happens. It really is how our best growth occurs.

I've done things that weren't good, you know, but I made up for my mistakes.

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

We all make mistakes. It's human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit.

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Christian, non-Christian, we're going to miss the mark. We're going to make mistakes. How you handle those mistakes and get more fundamentally sound spiritually in dealing with those mistakes I think have a direct impact - not only on your spiritual life, but those around you.

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.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

Strive to attain to the greater virtues, but do not neglect the lesser ones. Do not make light of a fall even if it be the most venial of faults; rather, be quick to repair it by repentance, although many others may commit a large number of faults, slight and grievous, and remain unrepentant.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.

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

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

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.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

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