Samuel Johnson Quotes

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

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

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.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

Repentance comes from the heart.

If thou wouldst be justified, acknowledge thine injustice. He that confesses his sin, begins his journey toward salvation. He that is sorry for it, mends his pace. He that forsakes it, is at his journey's end.

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

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

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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

Repentance is accepted remorse.

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

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

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

I've got some repenting to do.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

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.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.