Richard Coles Quotes

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

I apologise to people when I need to.

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

In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.

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.

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.

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

Hopefully America will forgive me.

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.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

I've always found it hard to say sorry.

I've got some repenting to do.

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.

I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

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.

When I say, 'I'm sorry,' it's because I regret something.

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

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.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.

My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.

In order to properly repent, he who has sinned against the public must make public reparation.