Igor Stravinsky Quotes

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.

I have sinned against you, my Lord.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

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.

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.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

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

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

I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.

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

...we must forgive him who repents, and asketh pardon for what is past; having first taken caution for the time to come

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.

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.

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

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.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

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