Best Asking For Forgiveness Quotes
52 Asking For Forgiveness quotes by 44 unique authors
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Sin is not a stain that I must wash out. What I need to do is ask forgiveness and reconcile myself, not go to the…
— Pope Francis
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Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.
— Pope Francis
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And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.
— Joseph J. Ellis
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It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
— Grace Hopper
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If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much…
— Keira Knightley
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My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
— Janine Turner
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I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and…
— Mark Wahlberg
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The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.
— Gregory Maguire
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Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private…
— Pablo Neruda
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I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.
— Christopher Paolini
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It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom
— Christopher Paolini
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Remember He is the artist and you are only the picture. You can't see it. So quietly submit to be painted---i.e., keep fulfilling all the…
— C.S. Lewis
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Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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In the deceitfulness of our hearts, we sometimes play with temptation by entertaining the thought that we can always confess and later ask forgiveness. Such…
— Jerry Bridges
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It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.
— Lora Leigh
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It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?
— Kate Brian
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When a Satanist commits a wrong, he realizes that is it natural to make a mistake―and if he is truly sorry about what he has…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although…
— Jonathan Kozol
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I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.
— Daphne du Maurier
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As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was…
— Bohumil Hrabal
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You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or…
— C.S. Lewis
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But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for…
— Deb Caletti
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Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
— Seth Godin
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There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness,…
— Emily Giffin
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Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too,…
— Henri Nouwen
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