Asking For Forgiveness Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Grace, Forgiving, Asking

  Pope Francis's Homily at the Mass in St Anna's Church in the Vatican, w2.vatican.va. March 17, 2013.

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• Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

  Nick Nolte

  Asking, Kind, Painful

  "'Warrior' Star Nick Nolte Scores a Knockout in a Role Close to Home". Interview with Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. December 8, 2011.

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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

  Penance, Kind, Sin

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• I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Spiritual, Two

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1860). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.108

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• 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.

  Chip Ingram

  Humility, Responsibility, Roots

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• Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Prayer, Flower, Heart

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• It is very, very rare where a slight that turns into a grudge that is in need of forgiveness is only about one of the parties. In most of our day-to-day situations - with colleagues at work, with your partner, with your children, with your friends - most of the time, if you really got down with each other and put aside your pride and your defensiveness and you had those hard conversations, you'd find a place where both people had something to ask for forgiveness from the other and to forgive the other.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Children, Party, Pride

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Doubt, Firsts, Sincere

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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 thinking is exceedingly dangerous. God’s judgement is without partiality. He never overlooks our sin. He never decides not to bother, since the sin is only a small one. No, God hates sin intensely whenever and wherever He finds it.

  Jerry Bridges

  Hate, Heart, Thinking

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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 there is no reason why. Maybe we simply ask forgiveness for not being born where these poor women have been born, knowing that if we lived here too, our fate might well have been the same.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Fate, Knowing, People

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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.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Knowing, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Done, Faults, Bears

  "The Scapegoat".

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• 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.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Grateful, Years

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

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Risk

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• My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

  Janine Turner

  Mistake, Desire, Brushes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Would Be, Done

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  The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

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• 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.

  R. K. Milholland

  Mistake, Lost Friendship, Forgiving

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• 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.

  Yekaterina Samutsevich

  Years, Judging, Strange

  "Pussy Riot punk band remains defiant of Putin's Russia". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. March 24, 2013.

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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 happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers. For me happiness was to share singing, praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes. I ask forgiveness for my bad ways: my life had no use on earth.

  Pablo Neruda

  Memories, Eye, Kissing

  Pablo Neruda (1984). “Still Another Day”, Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "Gems of Truth & Beauty".

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• Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

  Drake

  Humble, Advice, Permission

  Song: The Calm, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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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 events to make sense of her complicity. We all are, I suppose. Trying to invent our version of the story. All human odes are essentially one, "My life; what I stole from history, and how I live with it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Shoes, Feet, Trying

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• It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom

  Christopher Paolini

  Eragon, Permission, Asks

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