Jennifer Armentrout Quotes

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

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

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

Forgive yourself, but don't forget

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

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.

I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.

I do have a little bit of trouble with candor around the things that I used to do. I think it's probably just resultant of shame and embarrassment and not wanting to be defined by the life that I used to live.

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

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.

I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

Those are not the tears of repentance!... Self-loathing is not sorrow. Yet it is good, for it marks a step in the way home, and in the father's arms the prodigal forgets the self he abominates.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night.

One things there's no getting by, I've been a wicked girl, Says I... But, if I can't be sorry I might as well be glad !

You may in time of trouble think that you are not worth saving because you have made mistakes, big or little, and you think you are now lost. That is never true! Only repentance can heal what hurts. But repentancecan heal what hurts, no matter what it is.