How To Use Forgiveness In A Sentence

  • He made the declarations while responding to reporters' questions on the bilateral debt forgiveness agreement during yesterday's post-Cabinet news conference at Whitehall.
  • Theologian Keri Harvey writes, “Legalism is to seek to achieve forgiveness from God and ac ceptance by God through my obedience to God.” God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
  • I was too proud to follow him and beg forgiveness.
  • In other words, forgiveness is for real sin, not for foibles, mistakes, excusable blunders, and things we can't help.
  • It was a terrible sin, she said: which means we've got to pray for forgiveness.
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  • In his message he begs forgiveness. The Sun
  • She liked the way she had not openly offered reconciliation yet had managed to imply that forgiveness would not be unreasonably withheld.
  • I thought about Clinton and how weak of attempt he made when asking for forgiveness and how he was not forthright from the get go in regards to his ex marital affair. Archive 2008-03-01
  • The architect, however, takes the tool out of the artisan's hand and although he remonstrates with him for his clumsiness, begins to enact forgiveness.
  • Not yet, however, was the power of the keys instituted, which is derived from Christ's Passion, and consequently it was not yet ordained that a man should grieve for his sin, with the purpose of submitting himself by confession and satisfaction to the keys of the Church, in the hope of receiving forgiveness through the power of Christ's Passion. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
  • The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi 
  • Its symbolism speaks to them of service, communion, mutual forgiveness, oneness, and recognition of the fact that their bodies are temples of the Spirit.
  • Forgiveness is, of course, a tenet central to most religions. Times, Sunday Times
  • True Christianity is about judgment, atonement and forgiveness and NOT unreciprocated outreach contrary to what the beardie-weirdie and his acolytes might say. How Do Y0u Solve A Problem Like Sharia
  • The fact that an offender may remain oblivious to that forgiveness is absolutely beside the point. Scott Cairns: The Christian and the Community: A Relationship in God's Image
  • I oscillate between shame, self forgiveness and anger with the world at large. (No) Money Changes Everything | Her Bad Mother
  • Let us try to forethink, to antedate our forgiveness. Unspoken Sermons Third Series
  • She was right to go to the women, express her sincere regret and ask their forgiveness, but she was wrong to continue begging it once it was clear they would not give it.
  • Forgiveness helps you steer round the obstacles, to grow more together.
  • Forgiveness is an act of self-healing, self-liberation and self-empowerment. Times, Sunday Times
  • Forgiveness can never be demanded of victims and certainly not in the absence of admissions of wrongdoing.
  • In what ways is your perspective about sin and forgiveness being challenged?
  • Ultimately, we are called to love one another in trinities of mercy, love, and forgiveness, as God first loved us.
  • When the forgiveness of sins is considered, the use of the aorist tense in the Lord's Prayer makes clear that only a final (one-time only) forgiveness is sought when the Lord comes.
  • In addition to offering many opportunities for individual auricular confessions, twice or three times a year the parish offered the opportunity for communal services of forgiveness.
  • [Greek: pathos] and [Greek: anastasis] of Christ, has nothing to say, to the communities to which he writes, about the forgiveness of sin. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
  • Leaving aside the question of God's forgiveness, I think a basic way to forgive those who trespass against us is to return good for evil - to actually go out of our way to be charitable to those who have harmed us in some way.
  • Some persons do not deserve forgiveness. Christianity Today
  • I feel constrained to write and ask for your forgiveness.
  • I offered up a short prayer for forgiveness.
  • Then, assured that the company had repented of their evil deeds and intentions, he granted his full, sovereign forgiveness to all.
  • When the reprobates returned to beg forgiveness, Cecily pointedly asked Algernon why he had pretended to be Ernest.
  • They sent a grovelling email to the couple begging for forgiveness.
  • But if we can teach our children to exercise forgiveness, we can be sure that they will outlove the world. They Call Me Dad
  • I can understand the Day of Atonement, because it is a day of forgiveness and pardon and on it the second Tablets of the Law were given.
  • Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive. C.S. Lewis 
  • a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness
  • Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting.It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.
  • Instead of just asking me for forgiveness, stop committing sins and do good.
  • The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac 
  • I ask him for forgiveness, to let my son do his work. The Sun
  • The pity he commands is closely akin to the forgiveness of Christian charity.
  • So please save your noble, peace loving, one-with-nature savage schtick for the ignorant do-gooders who will mule, whimper, sob, slobber in maudeline fashion and plead for your forgiveness and that of your ancestors as an act of the collective white guilt that they exhibit. Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President.
  • Craving forgiveness for the liberty I am now taking, I have only to add, by your Grace's desire exprest in a letter to my early friend Capel Lofft Esq, that the Annual amount of the Gratuity I have recived is Fifteen Pounds. Letter 271
  • We too often skip past this part and get to the good stuff: the forgiveness. Christianity Today
  • In response the lord takes back his forgiveness and orders the unforgiving slave tortured.
  • In this second type no explicit expression of forgiveness to the offender is required.
  • I tried to explain that I was making art, but there was absolutely no forgiveness.
  • So we can't presume forgiveness means pretending that there is no harm. Christianity Today
  • And was his cryptic message supposed to imply forgiveness for her own error - or some kind of apology for his own?
  • Most adults do not live in a world of forgiveness and unconditional love. Times, Sunday Times
  • His eyes begged a silent plea of forgiveness, but she only shook her head.
  • The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Honore de Balzac 
  • The cry for forgiveness was also the cry for inward healing and deliverance from the mental and physical effects of sin.
  • The Christian principle of gracious forgiveness is, then, a good one, but it is extremely difficult for Christians themselves to observe it.
  • Some persons do not deserve forgiveness. Christianity Today
  • MUNICH - The archbishop of Munich and Freising begged forgiveness on Friday for "everything those working for the church have done" as he presented a report that showed over 250 priests and religion teachers abused children in a diocese that was once presided over by Pope StarTribune.com rss feed
  • Most religions in the world advocate philanthropism and forgiveness, which dissolve hatred and revenge.
  • The package here offers students no up-front fees, loan forgiveness at 25 years, no real rate of interest, a generous grant and bursary system and a cap on the fee itself.
  • I thank you and ask forgiveness. Times, Sunday Times
  • Preeminent among Luther's complaints were the practice of selling of indulgences (essentially, the selling of forgiveness for sin), the practice of "simony" (selling church positions), and the Church's policy on purgatory. The Vail Trail - All Sections
  • Forgiveness was the punctum I found in Unforgiven and which is already there in the text, if ambiguously.
  • Viewers could not help screaming and offering instant forgiveness because the hair-raising act had been so nearly perfect.
  • The Pope is asked more and more to be more specific in his asking for pardon, for forgiveness, vis-a-vis, the Jews.
  • If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
  • Does not by forgiveness disturb the retribute order of causes, 359. The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation.
  • He muttered a quick prayer to God, asking him for forgiveness.
  • She fought back the sudden urge to run to him, to fling herself into his arms and beg his forgiveness.
  • But we are a sinful people, and so we are given an escape from our own sin tendencies through the holy Spirit – and forgiveness through our repentance and faith in the atoning blood of Christ. The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
  • Funny how we really learn to forgive when we need forgiveness ourselves.
  • This is as it should be in a season of forgiveness, of rediscovering tolerance and joy.
  • You become obsessed by your past, trying to deal with feelings of guilt and forgiveness, and freedom and justice. Times, Sunday Times
  • Whether directly, as in Iona, the maniac maid, and maternal earth, or indirectly, through nonviolent forgiveness and revolutionary brotherhood, Shelley's poems reconfigure gender categories. Scrivener, Introduction
  • Do you want reliable answers concerning issues like life, forgiveness, death, heaven or hell?
  • But with this issue, the bishop must "recant," i.e. not just renounce his views but seek human and divine forgiveness. Vatican says bishop's apology is not enough | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
  • To poetize the truth in the science of charity and forgiveness can never be a great sin. Manners and Social Usages
  • She was estranged from her father for a long time and she says it's all about forgiveness. The Sun
  • Most especially Luther disputed the sale of indulgences whereby, as Luther perceived, believers might buy forgiveness for themselves or their departed relatives.
  • Many of the researchers use a twofold definition: forgiveness is releasing the other person from retaliation and wishing the other person well. Christianity Today
  • I told the angel of my intentions and asked forgiveness for barging in so rudely before.
  • Every day we live in the power of our baptism and in its dying-and-rising rhythm by confessing our sins and hearing the words of forgiveness.
  • Expecting ongoing punishment for the drugs episode, I forget that other people have different timetables for both acceptance and forgiveness.
  • I feel constrained to write and ask for your forgiveness.
  • An enemy who lies at thy feet begging forgiveness must not feel thy sword. 
  • It was a terrible sin, she said: which means we've got to pray for forgiveness.
  • How can we teach our children to outlove the world through forgiveness? They Call Me Dad
  • Chobani! finally getting something scary over with being told that I write good Facebook updates that certain types of junk food really do seem to be history things once hard that now are easy (repeat) being told, “Ask for forgiveness, not permission” prevailing in my running program once again hauling my arse to the gym instead of wallowing in self-pity Archive 2009-08-01
  • What act of forgiveness was not diluted by the endless range of cause and effect through which it traveled?
  • Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting.It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.
  • Sam was asking for forgiveness and wanted absolution from Ian.
  • It requested the President “to appoint a day for humiliation and prayer” and to ask the people “to convene at their usual places of worship” in order that they may “confess and repent of their manifold sins, implore the compassion and forgiveness of the Almighty, that, if consistent with his will the existing rebellion may be speedily suppressed” and “implore him as the supreme ruler of the world not to destroy us as a people. Chapter X
  • I am indeed guilty of gross misjudgment and misbehaviour, and must beg your forgiveness and the forgiveness of everybody concerned.
  • Experts from around the world advised ( "hectored" might be a better word) Woods that only by opening up could he hope for public forgiveness. Christian Science Monitor | All Stories
  • The religion of love lives now, the Torah of forgiveness and pardon rules among the people… Now you'll see what glad tidings I will bring to you.
  • At a ceremony in the town, Salvadorean Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez asked forgiveness for what he called the "blindness of state violence". BBC News - Home
  • We end, as we must, with an act of forgiveness but its sweet naivety is tinged with the bittersweet taste of experience. Times, Sunday Times
  • Therefore, we must turn around, change direction, and come to God for mercy and forgiveness.
  • He turns stereotypically feminine qualities like compassion and forgiveness into swarthy, macho rebel stances - this is one big, badass Jesus.
  • She needed to confess her sins and ask for forgiveness.
  • Two types of forgiveness may thus be distinguished: conditional ( "calculable" forgiveness following an act of repentance in which the guilty party promises never to engage in what is demanded by forgiveness) andunconditional (forgiving the unforgivable without conditions, a forgiveness which is incalculable and therefore impossible). Jacques Derrida, 9/11, And The Democracy Which is Yet to Come
  • If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
  • Love is an art of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
  • In particular, Mitt Romney and Michelle Bachmann have hurled at Mr. Gingrich the word "amnesty" - an inflammatory one in this context - during a debate on Tuesday, as if he had proposed a sweeping forgiveness of all illegal immigrants. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • It is true that Western creditors have announced forgiveness of a substantial amount of their share of the debt.
  • Each moment is hell and my only salvation stems from the mercy of your forgiveness!
  • Your question about forgiveness contains many layers that span so many decades of your life. Times, Sunday Times
  • Forgiveness is more like writing a book than writing a letter. Christianity Today
  • She works in prisons to raise awareness about restorative justice and for some years has been with the Forgiveness Project as a storyteller and facilitator. Times, Sunday Times
  • Surely thou must see the inconsistence of her forgiving unforgiveness, as I may call it! — yet, heavy varlet as thou art, thou wantest to be drawn up after her! Clarissa Harlowe
  • Instead, as with Nelson Mandela, forgiveness and reconciliation became the main planks in Kim's political platform and guided the steps he took. The Nobel Peace Prize 2000 - Presentation Speech
  • Love means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting.
  • Christianity is a liberating religion, and forgiveness of sins is a liberating experience.
  • If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
  • He's the other-worldly mystic, cloistered away, who deals daily in more murder, suffering and unforgiveness than most of us encounter in a month of Monday mornings.
  • An enemy who lies at thy feet begging forgiveness must not feel thy sword. 
  • While some say they do not feel comfortable using the word forgiveness because it's open to so many messy interpretations, I believe all would embrace the concept, if they knew of Ginn Fourie's favorite definition which states that - "Forgiveness is the principled decision to give up your justifiable right to revenge. Marina Cantacuzino: The Victims of Terrorism Who Do Not Seek Revenge
  • If you think that all of the other neo-realist European art films about forgiveness and parental grief weren't enough, and you were jonesing for one more, this is the movie for you.
  • Luckily he is very polite and begs forgiveness.
  • This book suggests that if you can achieve forgiveness, the side effect of forgiveness is a form of enlightened self-interest.
  • We need to have the spirit of forgiveness for our brethren and overlook small mistakes which happen during the running of organisations.
  • If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
  • To those who found it offensive, objectionable or even just irritating I can only ask for forgiveness.
  • Fearing for their lives the family begged his forgiveness and offered all that they owned as compensation. The Gods of Asgard
  • There is a twofold fiducial trust; -- one whereby we trust in Christ for the forgiveness of sin; which you may call adherence. The Sermons of John Owen
  • The drink of revenge distorts and embitters the soul, but the meat of forgiveness strengthens it. Eric Simpson: I Changed My Mind on the Death Penalty
  • Its driver, insouciant about having one more dent to add to the several he had already accumulated, waved an airy palm of instant forgiveness.
  • The parable of the prodigal son conveys at a conscious level a message about the need for forgiveness and acceptance.
  • He begged forgiveness and they got back together the next day. The Sun
  • It was a message of love, of forgiveness, of generosity, such as Herminia would hardly have expected from so stern a man as Alan had always represented his father to be to her. The Woman Who Did
  • C., to beg forgiveness for the way black men had mistreated their women and neglected their families.
  • W. H. Auden said:"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures. So that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf, demand atonement or grant forgiveness.
  • For them there is a new life of forgiveness, peace, beauty and abundance from here to eternity.
  • Love is an act of endleforgiveness, a tender look which becomes Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
  • A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was. Stephen Richards 
  • However, the self-flagellatory part of her conscience told her that would be an easy way out, asking for forgiveness's get-out-of-jail card instead of doing her time. Boiling a frog
  • The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi 
  • They included a region involved in regulating negative emotions and another called the cingulate, which activates when the brain makes judgments about forgiveness, among other things. Partisan Neurons
  • She moralized over same-sex marriage, but expected forgiveness and understanding when, thanks to tabloid pictures, America got to know her in the biblical sense. Conservatives of Convenience
  • Christianity is a liberating religion, and forgiveness of sins is a liberating experience.
  • At this stage I offered up a short prayer for forgiveness for a decided untruth. GOODBYE CURATE
  • Will you negociate forgiveness of his attrocities? Obama: Cuba policy to be based on 'libertad'
  • Otherwise what would there be to forgive? Forgiveness is about pardoning things are essentially inexcusable.
  • To accentuate his point, he referred to the Gospel which emphasises forgiveness.
  • Forgiveness is both remembering and forgetting. A Channel of Peace
  • The second thing prayer requires is forgiveness. Christianity Today
  • And that hymnal quality extends to other cuts such as ‘Roll Away’ and ‘Forgiveness’.
  • Love is an act of endleforgiveness, a tender look which becomes Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
  • People commit wrong actions, for which they require forgiveness or acquittal.
  • My bloody incisor, a miniature phallic symbol, I will pray to you for guidance, I will bow before you and ask forgiveness. Miracles, Inc.
  • Modern thinkers, who have thoroughly assimilated the idea of changeless laws underlying all phenomena, and who have studied the workings of these laws, are at first apt to reject any and every theory of the forgiveness of sins as being inconsistent with that fundamental truth, just as the scientist, penetrated with the idea of the inviolability of law, repels all thought which is inconsistent with it. Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries
  • God; and whoever doubts their certitude, the man who knows himself a son of God by faith, and has experience of forgiveness and guidance and answered prayer and hopes whose 'sweetness yieldeth proof that they were born for immortality,' _knows_ the things which others question and doubt. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
  • So we can't presume forgiveness means pretending that there is no harm. Christianity Today
  • To me it is a power circuit of love and forgiveness. A Channel of Peace
  • It was an incredible display of motherly love and forgiveness.
  • Nelson Mandela demonstrated to the world that the ideas of peace could not be separated from reconciliation and forgiveness.
  • But maybe an abused substance abuser can"t be cured through therapy and methadone but instead through confrontation and forgiveness.
  • His words of "Love your enemies", carefully cross-cut against his prayers for the tormentors forgiveness during his throes on the cross is a powerful piece of editing work.
  • Is there true contrition and sincere forgiveness, or has there been merely an exchange of lip service, a convenient pact to blur the past for the sake of a future which, in turn, lacks a clear vision?
  • In the book of Jonah, which most scholars consider post-exilic, God showers compassionate forgiveness on sinners in the faraway city of Nineveh. One World, Under God
  • And was his cryptic message supposed to imply forgiveness for her own error - or some kind of apology for his own?
  • Refusal to ask for forgiveness and not attempting to repent is what condemns the individual to hell. hunter Says: Religion And Sexual Ethics « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
  • His life has been a series of prayers for forgiveness. Times, Sunday Times
  • And was his cryptic message supposed to imply forgiveness for her own error - or some kind of apology for his own?
  • Fearing for their lives the family begged his forgiveness and offered all that they owned as compensation. The Gods of Asgard
  • In a lot of the reviews I read (not Dorothy’s of course), and the publicity interviews, there is a tendency to glorify the spirit of love and forgiveness in Jeannette Wells, her marvelous refusal to judge her parents, the amazing way that she has escaped unscathed from her traumatic childhood. The Glass Castle « Tales from the Reading Room
  • I prayed for forgiveness, then sought out our house painter and begged his pardon as well. Christianity Today
  • Maguire reveals she had a blazing row with a priest who heard her confession in prison, because she would not ask for forgiveness for the offences for which she was convicted.
  • Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion and forgiveness.
  • Yet if this most deceitful of the 20th century's killers is calculating on forgiveness, he may be deceiving himself.
  • The other angel, holding lilies, has a look of unconditional forgiveness.
  • The absence of forgiveness gums up the possibility of redemptive life flowing to people. Christianity Today
  • He has to plead that Scotland would forgive him for having been worth to it any million "unblamable" Scotchmen that need no forgiveness! The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
  • If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
  • The absence of forgiveness gums up the possibility of redemptive life flowing to people. Christianity Today
  • Horrified and overcome by guilt, Kate prays constantly for forgiveness and chastity.
  • And there's something I need to work on about forgiveness, to myself and others, but I haven't puzzled it out quite yet.
  • Before that law took effect, if a bank took, say, a $200,000 hit on a foreclosed home and "forgave" the debt, that forgiveness would be counted as taxable income for the former homeowner. Learning To Walk: Fear, Shame And Your Underwater Mortgage
  • Joss-house, and in the most abject terms implore forgiveness for his intemperate language over-night. Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War
  • He begged forgiveness and they got back together the next day. The Sun
  • Without presuming on, but nevertheless hoping for, forgiveness, you can petition the Almighty through this lesser ceremony and thereby summon the support and endorsement of your community.
  • I said all my prayers and asked for God's forgiveness for my sins and lunged forward.
  • I could hear her begging my father for my forgiveness, but I could also tell that she was failing as my father's voice dissipated completely.
  • _ Sir, I will serve him; for I do find your hangman is a more penitent trade than your bawd; he doth 45 oftener ask forgiveness. Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
  • However, when we readapted that program for use with romantic couples, some requested help in understanding how they could use forgiveness strategies to enhance their reconciliation.
  • In No Enemy to Conquer - a fascinating examination of forgiveness in an unforgiving world - the author, Michael Henderson, refers to the malicious rumors of 2007 which alleged that presidential cand ... Marina Cantacuzino: The Easy Path to Islamic Extremism
  • Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without Church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without contrition.
  • The Constitution does not mandate lenience, forgiveness or forgetfulness.
  • It is precisely here where the peculiarities of atonement and forgiveness may have to be considered, along with a specific reference to the circumstances.
  • It's the teacher who teaches you how to live a life of tolerance, forgiveness and so on.
  • Yet without the breakthrough to the level of hunger and 'futureless' passion, there is no forgiveness. Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 3: 'Flannery O'Connor: Proper Names'
  • If he won't talk to you, write him a letter asking for his forgiveness. The Sun
  • An enemy who lies at thy feet begging forgiveness must not feel thy sword. 
  • Siva's devotees facing death perform vâsanâ daha tantra, reconcile with and seek forgiveness from anyone they have offended, lest they leave unresolved kukarmas to go to seed and bear bitter fruit in future births.
  • If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
  • It is a sign of grace, both a confession of sin and a penance by which forgiveness may be obtained.
  • Black is the darkest betrayal, forgiveness Who Loved the pain.
  • Friendship means understanding, not agreement. It means forgiveness, not forgetting.It means the memories last, even if contact is lost.
  • Love is an act of endleforgiveness, a tender look which becomes Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
  • I beg your forgiveness, Your Eminence, but we don't have any boards and considering the depth of the pit the wood will surely break.
  • Just as I was about to beg their forgiveness, I saw the energy between them changing.

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