It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission? - Kate Brian They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little. - Michelle Hodkin It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. - Grace Hopper

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation. - Jayson Blair It is not easy to be at peace in today's troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. ... It can be attained only through maintaining constantly a repentant attitude, seeking forgiveness of sins both large and small, and thus coming ever closer to God. - Spencer W Kimball

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness. - William Brewster I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members. - William P Leahy

There is no forgiveness in nature. - Ugo Betti He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. "Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from," he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. "Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement. - Joe Hill I've come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us week, not our actions. - Tahereh Mafi There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. - Cormac Mccarthy There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. - Bryant H Mcgill What we ...

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. - Karl Barth But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was. - Saul Bellow Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that both of us can never live by our own words and deeds, but only by that one Word and deed that really binds us together, the forgiveness of sins in Jesus Christ? The bright day of Christian community dawns wherever the early morning mists of dreamy visions are lifting - Dietrich Bonhoeffer It is not easy to be at peace in today's troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisit...

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. - Mark Twain True forgiveness is when you can say, Thank you for that experience. - Oprah Winfrey Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward. - Oprah Winfrey Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner! - Max Lucado I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too. - Katherine Applegate Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE! - Dana Arcuri Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history. - Hannah Arendt Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been los...

Sometimes these misunderstandings were even desirable, since they gave people a reason to say 'Forgive me, I was only scratching my nose. Of course I know I've always been right to love you.' Because of the frequency of these mistakes, over time the gesture for asking forgiveness evolved into the simplest form. Just to open your palm was to say: Forgive me. - Nicole Krauss Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later. - Seth Godin 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 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 inve...

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 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

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 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 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....

It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission? - Kate Brian They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little. - Michelle Hodkin It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. - Grace Hopper 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 Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission - John Marsden I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault. - Daphne Du Maurier My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness. - Janine Turner

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender - Elizabeth Gilbert Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other. - Nicholas Sparks I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness. - Julian Clary