#atonement

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#ian-mcewan #life #love #love-conquers-all #sad

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

— Simone Elkeles

#atonement #love #love

And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment. ↗

— Herman Melville

#punishment #repentance #faith

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#forgiveness #regret #forgiveness

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#murder #society #forgiveness

Until Gettysburg," she continued, "I was working for the wrong reasons. At first it was to prove myself worthy in someone's eyes. Later it was out of guilt, trying to find atonement in God's eyes. But atonement is free, never earned. And I've learned that the only person I need to please with my life is God. ↗

— Lynn Austin

#god #life

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#atonement #equally #eternal #every #fault

It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#atonement #beach #bit #dirty #get

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#guilt #love

His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, ‘for His mercy endureth forever. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#inspirational #penance #religious #inspirational