Hosea Ballou Quotes

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.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

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.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

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

We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.

You cannot live with guilt.

I have sinned against my brother the ass.

Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

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

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

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.

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.

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

I am a big sinner.

Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,--why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before?

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent