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  • It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

    Lora Leigh (2012). “Lora Leigh: The Breeds Novels 7-11”, p.427, Penguin
  • 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 obvious duties of your station (you really know quite well enough what they are!), asking forgiveness for each failure and then leaving it alone.You are in the right way. Walk---don't keep on looking at it.

    Trust   Artist   Leaving  
  • The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.

    Forgiving   Asking   Tire  
    Pope Francis (2016). “The Name of God is Mercy”, p.5, Pan Macmillan
  • The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness for the things we have done wrong. We need to ask God to forgive us for our arrogance.

    Humble   America   Soul  
    Source: rayhemachandra.com
  • Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.

    Lee Strobel (2005). “God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You”, p.27, Harper Collins
  • We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.

    Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.144, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

    FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 03, 2011
  • 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.

    Penance   Kind   Sin  
  • Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.

  • I suppose that now would be the time to ask for forgiveness for all the things I've done, but I'm sure my list would never be complete. I also don't believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions...I don't believe that what comes after depends on anything I do at all.

    Believe   Would Be   Done  
  • 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 done, he will learn from it and take care not to do the same thing again. If he is not honestly sorry about what he has done, and knows he will do the same thing over and over, he has no business confessing and asking forgiveness in the first place.

    Sorry   Mistake   Satanic  
  • We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.

  • 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 it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

    Mistake   Sleep   Night  
    The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 29, 2006.
  • Let us go back to the Lord. The Lord never tires of forgiving: never! It is we who tire of asking his forgiveness. Let us ask for the grace not to tire of asking forgiveness, because he never tires of forgiving.

    Pope Francis's Homily at the Mass in St Anna's Church in the Vatican, w2.vatican.va. March 17, 2013.
  • Forgiveness depends on the person. If he's saying sorry to make himself comfortable, then don't forgive him. If he's asking for forgiveness sincerely, then it's okay to forgive him. If you don't know what's on that person's mind... It's easy. Watch carefully how that person has lived up to now, and how he's living right now.

  • The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

    Errors   Soul   Body  
  • You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

  • The weak can never forgive.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black
  • Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.

    People   Abuse   Sorrow  
    Pope Francis (2017). “Morning Homilies IV”, p.10, Orbis Books
  • Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.

  • I will be asking for forgiveness, but hopefully I won't have to be asking for much forgiveness.

    Source: townhall.com
  • If we learn to say we're sorry and ask forgiveness, the marriage will last.

  • If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ... It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.

  • How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.

    Song: Unconditional Love
  • 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, nothing more.

    Sorry   Regret   Two  
    Emily Giffin (2014). “The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 1: Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Love the One You're With”, p.796, St. Martin's Press
  • Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

    Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.70, Penguin
  • It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom

  • I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.

    "Fictional character: Brom". "Eragon", www.imdb.com. 2006.
  • 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 my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.

  • “I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

    "Gems of Truth & Beauty".
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