Asking For Forgiveness Quotes

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  It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

  Grace Hopper

  Forgiveness, Peace, Apology

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• 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.

  Michele Bachmann

  Mistake, People, Forgiving

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• Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.

  Lee Strobel

  Admitting, Asking, Process

  Lee Strobel (2005). “God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.

  Maya Angelou

  Real, Mistake, Mirrors

  "The Amazing Fitness Adventure for Your Kids: 90 Days to Raising Healthy Children" by Phil Parham, Amy Parham, Harvest House Publishers, (p. 80), September 1, 2011.

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• Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

  Paul David Tripp

  Faces, Problem, Asks

  Paul David Tripp (2007). “A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You”, p.161, David C Cook

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• There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.

  Erma Bombeck

  Sorry, Forgiving, World

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

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Forgiving

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• After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hands, Always Trying, Soul

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• Asking for forgiveness from others in a scriptural manner involves acknowledging that you have sinned against them and that you desire mercy and pardon (not to be given what you deserve). Asking for forgiveness is vital for reconciliation and may lead to the difference in the relationship.

  John C. Broger

  Forgiveness, Differences, Desire

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• We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls.

  Ed Dobson

  Healing, Soul, Forgiving

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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 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.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Sorry, Mistake, Satanic

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• It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

  Horace

  Forgiveness, Grants, Offense

  "Satires" by Horace, I. 3. 74 in,

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• Again, after his fall, God gave him an occasion to repent and to receive mercy but he kept his stiff-neck held high. He came to him and said "Adam, Where are you?" instead of saying "What glory you have left and what dishonor you have arrived at?" After that, He asked him "Why did you sin? Why did you transgress the commandment?" By asking these questions, He wanted to give him the opportunity to say, "Forgive me." However, he did not ask for forgiveness. There was no humility, there was no repentance, but indeed the opposite.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Fall, Humility, Opportunity

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• The weak can never forgive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strength, Being Strong, Forgiveness

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.155, A&C Black

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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 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.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Mistake, Sleep, Night

  The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com. September 29, 2006.

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• I accepted the forgiveness of God. I got off track as an adult and because I believe in God's grace, I believe that gave me strength then to get that little part of my life realigned, to not play games about it, to confess it, to ask for forgiveness from God and ask others to forgive me as well and then move on.

  Max Lucado

  Believe, Moving, Play

  Source: sojo.net

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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 better than having to live with guilt.

  Keira Knightley

  Atheist, Guilt, Sound

  Interview with David Cronenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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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

  Forgiving, Asking, Forget

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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, 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.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Reflection, People

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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

  Errors, Soul, Body

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• There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness

  Pope Francis

  Needs, Sin, Pardon

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• There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

  Randy Travis

  Effort, Honest, Repent

  Source: www.cbn.com

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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, nothing more.

  Emily Giffin

  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

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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 the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.

  Deb Caletti

  Apology, Thinking, Giving

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Billy Graham

  Forgiveness, Practice, Forgiving

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.144, Thomas Nelson Inc

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