"There is a Sacredness in tears. They are……" — Washington Irving

More Contrition Quotes

This quote is filed under Contrition Quotes, one of 20 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of… — Thomas Aquinas
• 'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and… — 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… — Louis de Montfort
• I divested myself of despair and fear when I came here. Now there is no more catching one's own eye… — Jane Kenyon
• Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There… — Billy Graham
• I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not… — Mary McCarthy
• The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories… — 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… — Amos Bronson Alcott
• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently… — Washington Irving
• Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from… — Sharon Kay Penman

See all 20 Contrition Quotes »