C. S. Lewis Quotes

It's always best to ask for forgiveness if you feel that you made a mistake. And again, asking for forgiveness is not just saying the words 'I'm sorry'; it is also offering what you need to do.

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.

I never challenged the ICC verdict. This means I accepted my punishment. It is mentioned in Islamic law that you have got to be punished if you commit a mistake. What is important is that I have learnt my lesson.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

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.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Come up with a few examples from the Bible – or from history, or from whatever – that kind of show, you know, how when you've made a mess, you can do the best you can to clean it up, you make it right the best you can, and you keep going.

When you make a mistake—a big mistake, you’re going to have to apologize—a lot!

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

I apologized for my mistakes.

You've committed no sins, just mistakes.

I am a big sinner.

I've done things that weren't good, you know, but I made up for my mistakes.

We're all sinners, every one of us. We've all done things we wish we hadn't.

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.