Sally

“Correctly understood, repentance is not negative but positive. It means, not self-pity or remorse, but conversion, the re-centering of our whole life upon the Trinity. It is to look, not backward with regret, but forward with hope - not downwards at our own shortcomings, but upwards at God's love. It is to see, not what we have failed to be, but what by divine grace we can now become; and it is to act upon what we see. To repent is to open our eyes to the light. In this sense, repentance is not just a single act, an initial step, but a continuing state, an attitude of heart and will that needs to be ceaselessly renewed up to the end of life.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

“Never trust a thought that occurs to you indoors.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“...'I suffer: someone or other must be guilty' – and every sick sheep thinks the same.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

“every fall, even if it be very grave and repeated, serves us always and only as a little step towards a higher perfection.”
― St. Maximilian Kolbe, Let Yourself Be Led by the Immaculate