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"Forgiveness" in a Sentence (18 examples)
I asked forgiveness for the mistake I made.
She sought forgiveness for her guilty acts.
The princess begged forgiveness from the emperor.
They also teach that, for great sins, they cannot receive forgiveness unless they confess to their leader.
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get permission.
Forgiveness is the greatest gift of all.
If you want her forgiveness you need to come clean about what you did.
When I was young I used to pray for a bike. Then I realized that God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness.
Tom begged Mary for forgiveness.
Don't ask me for forgiveness. What's been done has been done.
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He begged for forgiveness after being caught stealing from the shop.
At the end of a week, she could bear the suspense no longer, and so went humbly to her old home and sought forgiveness.
It was not a war party, so it surely was men who came to ask for peace and forgiveness.
But Oh! what anguish can more poignant be Than of the heart which vainly longs to plead Forgiveness from the dead? Shall the dead heed?
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and misinterpreting Holy Scriptures and numerous examples of mercy. We remember God’s forgiveness of Cain, who killed Abel, and the adulterer King David, who arranged the killing of Uriah, the husband of Bathsheba, his lover.
If the incident in question causes you continued distress and negatively impacts your life, that’s where the f-word — forgiveness — may have a role to play, said psychologist Robert Enright, a pioneer in the field of forgiveness science and professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
If thou, Lord, shouldest marke iniquities: O Lord, who shal stand? But there is forgiuenesse with thee: that thou mayest be feared.
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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