Adolf Eichmann 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.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

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.

He who is penitent is almost innocent.

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.

Children are very fair minded, they really are.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

It is indeed a mistake to confuse children with angels

Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

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

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

I thought I was a good kid.

You don't see many people crying over the wrong they do to God every time His word is neglected or when one willfully sins.

I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness.

Repentance comes from the heart.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.