Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button. — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart." — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Truly there are different kinds of pain. But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“After all these years, all I know is, I need not to do anything as a part of remorse. All I need… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
“It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“At a certain age, you realize the greatest loss you can experience is a theft you perpetrate upon yourself—the waste of days… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“Conviction is not just the pain of getting caught or pain over consequences. It means a God-given, really sober sense of remorse… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
“Then you haven't lost your soul. Only a creature with a soul can tell the difference between right and wrong. Yes, you've… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In projecting onto others their own moral sense, therapists sometimes make terrible errors. Child physical abusers are automatically labeled “impulsive," despite extensive… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“He went away, bent double with the pains of remorse and regret and the inward biting of a love which had now… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“In her remorse, she was also willing to admit that she was sad for another reason. She no longer had a reason… — Shawn Kirsten Maravel Copy Share Image
“The sea was cruel and selfish as human beings, and in its monstrous simplicity had no notion of complexities like pity, wounding,… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done for… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Joy? She has the power to stop my heart. How should I treat someone so intent on killing me without a hint… — E.Y. Laster Copy Share Image
The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
“They needed someone to hate, a tangible focus for their remorse and disappointment, and I’d been elected, the projection of their own… — Donald O'Donovan Copy Share Image
Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I'll do anything to stop my son running out into the street. I'll take a bullet for him. He's hit me a… — Farrah Fawcett Copy Share Image
“An evil vampire would not have such a black pit of pain and remorse hidden in his heart. He wouldn’t know the… — Kerrelyn Sparks Copy Share Image
“When the bonfire of love still smolders in the wake of emotional convulsions, seeds of regret and remorse may endlessly linger about… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“Remorse is a heavy burden, but in its weight, it has great power to awaken men's souls.” — R. William Bennett Copy Share Image
