Lee Strobel Quotes

A great country acknowledges it's mistakes.

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.

The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.

We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

I think I deserve an apology.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.

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

Perhaps one could say I've worked in South Africa too long, but I believe in forgiveness, especially when a person admits a mistake, asks for forgiveness, and works to right a wrong.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

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

Apologies are seldom of any use.

If we have injured someone, giving him the opportunity to make a joke about us is often enough to provide him personal satisfaction, or even to win his good will.

Hopefully America will forgive me.

You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth.

I have to make things right with Tiger first before anything else.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

I spent a lot of time with President Mandela supporting his efforts in the peace process in Burundi. The thing that impressed me the most was his humility.

I've always found it hard to say sorry.

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

I apologise to people when I need to.

I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me.

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.