Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

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 think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

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

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

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

Forgive yourself, but don't forget

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

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.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

I don't regret any of my transgressions, because I believe I paid for them a million times over.

If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

The only way to atone for the past is to do something meaningful in the present.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.

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

That's the thing about mistakes, you don't dwell on them.