Henry Miller Quotes

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

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

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

I have apologised to the police.

I really believe guilt finds its way out of a person.

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

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

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.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

I am a big sinner.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

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

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

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

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

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 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 regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.