Contrition Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

— Naomi Wolf

I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent catastrophe. When…

— Charlie Munger

I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map.…

— Kate Braverman

Apologizing is different from begging, it doesn't change your status, go ahead and get on your knees, spill tears if you got it, for…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not…

— Martin Luther

“I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye in the mirror, there…

— Jane Kenyon

Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul…

— Louis de Montfort

We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and…

— Walter Savage Landor

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we…

— Philip Yancey

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

— Thomas Brooks

“He died, as the Spanish phrase has it, full of illusions. He had not had time in his life to lose any of them,…

— Ernest Hemingway