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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 my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.”

Felt Knowing Asking Forgiving Shakes Forgive Me Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Bohumil Hrabal

“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 less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.”

Needs Trying Mind Firsts May Long Done Helping Seems Asks Given Virtue Long Time Picks Always Trying Try Again Asking For Forgiveness God First Pick Yourself Up

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“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.”

Thinking Giving Persons Okay Harder Asking Apology Injured Asking For Forgiveness

Book:The Story of Us

Source: The Story of Us

“Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.”

Made Change Asking Permission Asking For Forgiveness Asking Permission

Book:Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

“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.”

Kind Two Regret Pure Asking Sorry Asking For Forgiveness

Book:The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 1: Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Love the One You're With

Source: The Emily Giffin Collection: Volume 1: Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Love the One You're With

“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 Done Would Be Asks Depends Don't Believe Lists Transgression Asking For Forgiveness Reciting

Author:Veronica Roth

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

Asks Forgiveness Grants Offense Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Horace

“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.”

Ifs Knows Mind Persons Easy Watches Depends Drama Right Now Comfortable Okay Asking Forgiving Sorry Sincerely Asking For Forgiveness Saying Sorry Living Right Living Right Now

Author:Kim Du-han

“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.”

Knows Turns Asks Christ Sin Lord Practice Know How Return Forgiveness Forgiving Savior Expecting Our Lord Asking For Forgiveness

Book:Billy Graham in Quotes

Source: Billy Graham in Quotes

“In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up.”

Source: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism

“The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.”

Lord Asking Forgiving Tire Asking For Forgiveness

Book:The Name of God is Mercy

Source: The Name of God is Mercy

“The things the writers have me doing on Suburgatory are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.”

Thinking Asks Easier Insane Permission Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Cheryl Hines

“The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.”

People Thinking Mean Sometimes Stories Asking Confession Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Tori Amos

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

Process Asking Admitting Accelerate Wrongdoing Asking For Forgiveness

Book:God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You

Source: God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You

“The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.”

Christian Pain Asks Justice Exercise Crosses Forgiving Ignored Incentives Exhibits Degenerates Peacemaking Asking For Forgiveness Appeasement

Book:The Cross of Christ

Source: The Cross of Christ

“It's strange when you're innocent, are you supposed to ask for forgiveness from the judge who's ready to put you away for several years? No, this wasn't even discussed.”

Years Asks Strange Ready Judging Innocent Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Yekaterina Samutsevich

“Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.”

Sometimes Done Asks Ability Mistake Capacity Forgiving Harm Things Done Lost Friendship Lost Friend Asking For Forgiveness

Author:R. K. Milholland

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

Problem Faces Asks Asking For Forgiveness

Book:A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

Source: A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.”

Asks Planets Deities Paganism Pagan Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Scott Cunningham

“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.”

“You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.”

Ifs Inspirational Asks Business Risk Succeed Permission Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Richard Branson

“Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.”

Years Ends Mother Asks Church Teach Holy Conscience Grateful Be Grateful Examination Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Pope Francis

“I know for me, going back the person I've bad-mouthed or lied to is absolutely humiliating! But isn't it interesting that "humiliating" has the same root word as "humility"? Part of humility is taking responsibility for my sin and asking forgiveness even when it doesn't feel good. God wants to heal and restore your relationships, but it's not easy.”

Knows Want Feels Persons Easy Sin Interesting Responsibility Humility Roots Asking Heal Feel Good Our Relationship Taking Responsibility Lied Humiliating Good God Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Chip Ingram

“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.”

Ifs Asks Sin Too Much Praying Satan Pushing Take Time Asking For Forgiveness Too Much Work

Author:Corrie Ten Boom

“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.”

Asks Lord Grace Asking Forgiving Tire Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Pope Francis

“How do you know if Allah has forgiven you? When someone sincerely asks for forgiveness, then there is no doubt they are forgiven. It is guaranteed. Never doubt if Allah forgave you. First of all be sincere and genuine, and if you meet that condition then there is no doubt.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Asks Doubt Conditions Genuine No Doubt Sincere Do You Know Forgiven Sincerely Muslim Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Nouman Ali Khan

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

Needs Asks Sin Pardon Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

Mean Moments Action Responsibility Grace Consequence Asking Karma Burned Taking Responsibility Atonement Amends Asking For Forgiveness Making Amends Actions Have Consequences

Author:Marianne Williamson

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

Hard Asks Witness This Life Without God Asking For Forgiveness Caskets

Author:Tupac Shakur

“You must ask for God's help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.”

Trying Helping Asks Picks Try Again Asking For Forgiveness Pick Yourself Up

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness.”

Forget Asking Forgiving Tired Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Pope Francis

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

Way Soul Asks Healing Forgiving Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Ed Dobson

“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 drycleaners. I have to go encounter Jesus who gave his life for me.”

Needs Asks Jesus Sin Encounters Reconcile Stains Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Pope Francis

“Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.”

Forget Lord Asking Forgiving Weary Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Pope Francis

“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.”

Kind Asks Sin Things To Do Decent Intervals Penance Asking For Forgiveness

Author:Joseph J. Ellis

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