Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes

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

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

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

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

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

I've always found it hard to say sorry.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

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.

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.

In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

When I say, 'I'm sorry,' it's because I regret something.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.

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.

To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.

I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I know that, by my ill-considered and immature works, I have brought distress to many and that I have even provoked others to attack me openly and, in general, have produced displeasure in many.

I've become a master of the apology.

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

Maybe there is some regret with how I left Southampton.

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

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.