Mark Helprin Quotes

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I wrote an apology for the harm I'd caused, but I also knew that an apology could never undo any of it.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.

You can't make up for something you lost.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

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.

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

REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.

Hopefully America will forgive me.

I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.

You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience

I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

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

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

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

I'm grateful that the team allowed me back. I'm looking forward to making it up to them.

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.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

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.