Sophie Swetchine Quotes

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

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.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

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.

If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.

They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.

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

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

I will be asking for forgiveness, but hopefully I won't have to be asking for much forgiveness.

I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.

To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

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.

The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.

Repentance comes from the heart.

I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.

How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!

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

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.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.