Contrition Quotes

20 quotes by 19 authors

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and… — Thomas Aquinas
'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.' — Benedict Joseph Labre
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. — Vittorio Alfieri
Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to… — Louis de Montfort
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 are… — Jane Kenyon
Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God. — Billy Graham
I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my… — Mary McCarthy
The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white… — Robert Agostinelli
A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead. — Emily Dickinson
Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty. — Amos Bronson Alcott
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They… — Washington Irving
Men are born to sinâ€¦What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are… — Sharon Kay Penman
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. The… — Kate Braverman
The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition.… — J D Salinger
Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in contrition and compassion,… — Julian of Norwich
God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition. — Frederica Mathewes-Green
After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its… — Martin Jacques
I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their faith… — Benjamin N. Cardozo
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. — Charles Williams
There is a Sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They… — Washington Irving

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