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It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. -- Grace Hopper
Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences. -- Nick Nolte
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness. -- Elbert Hubbard
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
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
I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred. -- Abdul Qadeer Khan
I have sinned against You, my Lord, and I would ask that your precious blood would wash and cleanse every stain until it is in the seas of God's forgiveness. -- Jimmy Swaggart
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
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
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
You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth. -- Athol Fugard
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 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
Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later. -- Seth Godin
The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness. -- Pope Francis
I will be asking for forgiveness, but hopefully I won't have to be asking for much forgiveness. -- Donald Trump
Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness. -- Lee Strobel
I may not give you the forgiveness you're asking, but i'm giving you forever to make me forgive you. -- JCrov
Let's not forget that God never gets tired of forgiving so let's never get tired of asking for forgiveness, -- Pope Francis
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
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
If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace. -- Paul of the Cross

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