Genuine Remorse Quotes

I am the type of person who believes an apology should be sincere and from the heart.

An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

So many people apologize because they feel like they have to - that it's the appropriate thing to do, that it may help them down the road. But people can tell whether you're sincere.

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.

Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

You can say you're sorry 5,000 times, but that doesn't mean you mean it.