Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

When I repent, here is where it starts. I try to name my sin as honestly and as specifically as possible. Here is what repenting is not. It is not excusing my sin, minimizing my sin, it's not rationalizing my sin ... Repentance is getting painfully honest with God.

Before you judge me... I plead guilty

There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.

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.

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

I must give an account for what I've done.

I think guilt can be good to a small degree, keep you on the right path.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

No, no," Mr. Darling always said, "I am responsible for it all. I, George Darling, did it. MEA CULPA, MEA CULPA." He had had a classical education.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

I have not been the witness I wanted to be.

Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.

Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.

I know it's my fault I should've gave more.

I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I would much rather, if possible - and in my estimation it would not be possible - to make it worse than less than it actually is. I have no one but myself to blame. I do not lay the fault or the blame of the charge at anyone else's feet. For no one is to blame but I take the responsibility. I take the blame. I take the fault.

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

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