Tryon Edwards Quotes

The only way to atone for the past is to do something meaningful in the present.

I turned a lot of people off over the past few years, but I know I can still turn out good music and turn everything all around, i've lost some of my best qualities. For that, I am sorry.

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

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

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

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.

Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

Come up with a few examples from the Bible – or from history, or from whatever – that kind of show, you know, how when you've made a mess, you can do the best you can to clean it up, you make it right the best you can, and you keep going.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

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

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.

I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.

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 just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

I've done things that weren't good, you know, but I made up for my mistakes.

It's always best to ask for forgiveness if you feel that you made a mistake. And again, asking for forgiveness is not just saying the words 'I'm sorry'; it is also offering what you need to do.

A great thing of getting older is coming to terms and saying sorry and trying to repair damage that happened in the past.

A-tone-ment-its a chance to fix the unfixable and to start all over again. It begins when you forgive yourself for all you've done wrong, and forgive others for all they've done to you. Your mistakes aren't mistakes anymore, they're just things that make you stronger.

Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.