Emily Dickinson Quotes

Come up with a few examples from the Bible – or from history, or from whatever – that kind of show, you know, how when you've made a mess, you can do the best you can to clean it up, you make it right the best you can, and you keep going.

Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.

Remorse begets reform.

True repentance also involves reform.

I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.

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.

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

I really like playing good guys, of course. Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys, but I don't have that problem, anyway.