Honore de Balzac Quotes

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 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.

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

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

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.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

I've done a lot of things that I regret.

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

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause

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

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

I have sinned against my brother the ass.

The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.