Daniel Webster Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

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

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

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

Guilt only dreads Liberty of Speech, which drags it out of its lurking Holes, and exposes its Deformity and Horror to Day-light.

What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we're all sinners.

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

I am a big sinner.

I know I'm a 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.

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

Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.

Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification.

The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.