Gilbert Parker Quotes

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

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

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

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.

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

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

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.

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

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

Avoid what will require an apology.

I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and the American people.

How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define 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.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

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

I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

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

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.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.