Benjamin Whichcote Quotes

Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Judge of our offenses; notwithstanding, the tongue of malevolence and scurrility may be continually preparing its most poisonous ingredients for the punishment of a crime, which has already received more than half a pardon.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

I am not sorry for my crime.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

In order to properly repent, he who has sinned against the public must make public reparation.

Penitence must precede pardon.