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It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. -- Grace Hopper
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
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
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
I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission. -- Christopher Paolini
We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities. -- Scott Cunningham
Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later. -- Seth Godin
If we learn to say we're sorry and ask forgiveness, the marriage will last. -- Pope Francis
The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness. -- Pope Francis
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. -- Horace
There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness -- Pope Francis
You must ask for God's help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness. -- Lee Strobel
Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness, -- Pope Francis
How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness. -- Tupac Shakur
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. -- 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. -- Marianne Williamson
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. -- John Stott
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. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Jesus is my role model and He is whom I try to follow. Everything I do, I know I'm representing Him. Does it mean I do it well all the time? No. But I do ask for forgiveness for the times I bring Him a bad name. -- Matt Diaz
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
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. -- C. S. Lewis
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. -- C. S. Lewis
Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences. -- Nick Nolte
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness. -- Janine Turner
The things the writers have me doing on 'Suburgatory' are insane. I think they think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. -- Cheryl Hines
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
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation. -- Kevin DeYoung
Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement. -- Athol Fugard
And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad. -- John Rowland
I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility. -- John G. Rowland
In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness. -- John Edwards
I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness. -- Scott Stapp
One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness. -- Jeffrey Bell
I will be asking for forgiveness, but hopefully I won't have to be asking for much forgiveness. -- Donald Trump
Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness. -- Pope Francis
If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah's forgiveness. -- Ibn Rajab
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
None of us deserve God's forgiveness. The Bible says to forgive because God forgave us. It doesn't say anything about deserving it or even asking for it. -- Liz Tolsma

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