Jayson Blair Quotes

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

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.

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

I'm sure I have a lot to atone for, if there is a judgment day. It's gonna be a long list for me. It goes right up until I was about 18, and then I sort of straightened out.

I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I know that, by my ill-considered and immature works, I have brought distress to many and that I have even provoked others to attack me openly and, in general, have produced displeasure in many.

I can't turn the clock back but I can seek the forgiveness of those I've wronged.

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.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

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

Hopefully America will forgive me.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

I've always found it hard to say sorry.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

I've got some repenting to do.

I apologise to people when I need to.

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.