Tony Campolo Quotes

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

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

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

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.

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.

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.

This was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible. Several years ago, I asked for and received forgiveness from God and my wife in confession and marriage counseling. Out of respect for my family, I will keep my discussion of the matter there - with God and them. But I certainly offer my deep and sincere apologies to all I have disappointed and let down in any way.

I am a big sinner.

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.

It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

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

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

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

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

I've got some repenting to do.