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Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will. -- Max Lucado
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. -- Vittorio Alfieri
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. -- Charles Williams
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works. -- Thomas Aquinas
The social disease of political correctness has entered daily life, inverting good to bad and attempting to rewrite proud histories as an imposition of white supremacy for which we all should make contrition. -- Robert Agostinelli
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. -- Washington Irving
A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead. -- Emily Dickinson
God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions. -- Martin Luther
True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans... -- Thomas Brooks
A fitting room to me has always been like a confessional ... where my body and my contrition take up the entire room. -- Erma Bombeck
Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God. -- Billy Graham
We fancy that our afflictions are sent us directly from above; sometimes we think it in piety and contrition, but oftener in moroseness and discontent. -- Walter Savage Landor
The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.' -- Benedict Joseph Labre
We in the church have humility and contrition to offer the world, not a formula for success. Almost alone in our success-oriented society, we admit that we have failed, are failing, and always will fail. -- Philip Yancey
I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent catastrophe. When banks are borrowing the government's credit rating, you need rules to prevent stupid things. -- Charlie Munger
Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship. -- Theodore Millon
I shall never send for a priest or recite an Act of Contrition in my last moments. I do not mind if I lose my soul for all eternity. If the kind of God exists Who would damn me for not working out a deal with Him, then that is unfortunate. I should not care to spend eternity in the company of such a person. -- Mary McCarthy
God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind. -- Martin Jacques
I own that it is a good deal of a mystery to me how judges, of all persons in the world, should put their faith in dicta. A brief experience on the bench was enough to reveal to me all sorts of cracks and crevices and loopholes in my own opinions when picked up a few months after delivery and reread with due contrition. -- Benjamin N. Cardozo
'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.' -- Benedict Joseph Labre
One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world. -- Peter Kreeft
Men are born to sin"What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition. -- Sharon Kay Penman

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