Top 28 Contrite Heart Quotes
#1. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.
Rudyard Kipling
#2. If I were king of the world, babies born in airplanes, balloons and blimps would, instead of choosing to be German, Maldivian or American, all get special heavenly blue passports with a stork on the cover labeled 'Sky Baby' - and they'd be allowed to come and go anywhere they please.
Robert Krulwich
#3. Nothing, however, is as ill founded as the assertion of the alleged equality of all members of the human race.
Ludwig Von Mises
#4. If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there?
Lindsay Hartley
#5. He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.
Tom Clancy
#7. British monarchy exists not to exercise power but to keep other people from having the power.
Ketevan Gogelia
#8. Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#9. And ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a contrite spirit.
Robert K. Dellenbach
#11. The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.
J.C. Ryle
#12. The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one's flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself.
Saint Augustine
#14. How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
Hosea Ballou
#15. Supplication comes from a place of intrinsic desperation resulting from a broken and contrite heart.
Robin Bertram
#16. Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
Hosea Ballou
#17. It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers.
Aimee Bender
#18. Like sacrifices, prayer is intended to change man, not God. Its purpose is to cultivate a contrite heart, to promote feelings of humility and inadequacy in man, whilst encouraging reliance on Divine assistance.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
#19. Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad.
Bryce Courtenay
#20. 16. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. 17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Anonymous
#21. Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.
Charles R. Swindoll
#22. One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
Valerie Jarrett
#23. My life was never intended to be one long slow descent into respectability.
Christopher Fowler
#24. A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God, and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us, just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care.
Ole Hallesby
#25. The tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.
Charles Simeon
#26. A heart renewed
a loving heart
a penitent and humble heart
a heart broken and contrite, purified by love
that and only that is the rest of men. Spotlessness may do for angels, repentance unto life is the highest that belongs to man.
Frederick William Robertson
#27. Sometimes the single-syllable conversations are the most important ones.
Thea Harrison
#28. I just thank God when I wake up every day.
Cilla Black