Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

True atonement isn't the periodic shaving of karmic stubble via confessional; it requires deep, truthful change. It means doing the hardest thing of all: not making the same stupid mistake again.

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

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

Come up with a few examples from the Bible – or from history, or from whatever – that kind of show, you know, how when you've made a mess, you can do the best you can to clean it up, you make it right the best you can, and you keep going.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

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

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

True repentance involves a change of heart and not just a change of behavior.

Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something much harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here's the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person - and he would not need it.

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.

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

People make mistakes in life. You shouldn't have to live with that for the rest of your life. I believe in redemption. I'm an Irish Catholic, and I just think it's the right thing to do.

I never challenged the ICC verdict. This means I accepted my punishment. It is mentioned in Islamic law that you have got to be punished if you commit a mistake. What is important is that I have learnt my lesson.

I've done things that weren't good, you know, but I made up for my mistakes.

It's always best to ask for forgiveness if you feel that you made a mistake. And again, asking for forgiveness is not just saying the words 'I'm sorry'; it is also offering what you need to do.

Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.