There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.
Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.
Guys who dress up like Santa Claus, see, and give presents away do it because when they was young they must have did something bad and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good to make up for it, see?
I rest solely in His righteousness and in His atonement because I know there is nothing I can do to make up for my own iniquity.
Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties.
The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
The important questions focus on what matters most-Heavenly Father's plan and the Savior's Atonement.
It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.
Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.
If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.
The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.
No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
Joe DiMaggio was quite mean to Marilyn Monroe when they were married. But after she died, he did tend to her grave, which made up for it.
Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
Physicists find themselves in a position not unlike that of Alfred Nobel. Alfred Nobel invented an explosive more powerful than any then known—an exceedingly effective means of destruction. To atone for this "accomplishment" and to relieve his conscience he instituted his awards for the promotion of peace. Today, the physicists who participated in producing the most formidable weapon of all time are harassed by a similar feeling of responsibility, not to say guilt. As scientists, we must never cease to warn against the danger created by these weapons.
