Lawana Blackwell Quotes

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

Hopefully America will forgive me.

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

I have sinned against my brother the ass.

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

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

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.

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

I've been very clear publicly I'm not a perfect human being, and I've made mistakes in my life, and I've had to apologize to God and to seek reconciliation.

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.

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

Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me

Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.

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

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.

I recognize that by saying that I'm deeply sorry, it might not be enough and sufficient to address the pain and the hurt that I have caused you. Therefore, I want to ask for your forgiveness for my actions, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.

There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.

Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God.

I will be asking for forgiveness, but hopefully I won't have to be asking for much forgiveness.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

We need to ask God for forgiveness and do all we can to correct whatever harm our actions may have caused. Repentance means a change of mind and heart—we stop doing things that are wrong, and we start doing things that are right. It brings us a fresh attitude toward God, oneself, and life in general.

Repentance is accepted remorse.