Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

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

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

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.

Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

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

Repentance is accepted remorse.

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!

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin.

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man.

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

When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

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

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.