toss an apologetic smile over my shoulder and return

“I need to hear the words of this book—its truth, forgiveness, hope—as much as anybody.” Nathaniel looked up with an apologetic smile. “I know…

— Julie Klassen

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

— Jesse Jackson

Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.

— Lee Strobel

I know I'm an overachiever, and I'm not apologetic about it.

— Tyra Banks

I'm apologetic when I feel like I've made a mistake. And when I have done a disservice to myself or someone else. But I…

— Susan Rice

In a post-modern culture we need an apologetic that is felt and seen because if post-moderns are not feeling it, they are not believing…

— Ravi Zacharias

“The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world.”

— Susan Cooper

When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was…

— Jack Antonoff

... and yet he could also be very charming, in a bookish, infinitely apologetic way.

— Paula McLain

Writing is a vocation and, as in any other calling, a writer should develop his talents for the greater glory of God. Novels should…

— Piers Paul Read

I'm a single-issue voter, to get straight to the point. I'm really only interested in the candidate who's toughest and least apologetic when it…

— Christopher Hitchens

The purpose of apologetics is not just to win an argument or a discussion, but that people with whom we are in contact may…

— Francis Schaeffer

We preach sermons, write books on apologetics, conduct city-wide evangelistic campaigns. For those alienated from the church, that approach no longer has the same…

— Philip Yancey

In the New Testament alone there are Gospels, acts, epistles, and an apocalypse. Gospels contain literary forms like miracles, parables, pronouncements, proverbs, farewell discourses,…

— Craig Blomberg

If writing with a goal - whether it be evangelistic, apologetic, or didactic - implies propaganda, then all recorded history is propaganda. . .…

— Paul Copan