"If you could say I have 'suffered' at all throughout this whole experience it is only in knowing how much suffering I have put you all through; I will never ask you to forgive me as I do not deserve forgiveness".
"We ask you to forgive us for all of our sins, cleanse our minds, cleanse our hearts, cleanse our spirit.
I don't ask you to forgive me as there is too much lost but just so you know I wish you the best.
I'm not going to ask you to forgive, because you destroyed the relationship between confessor and sinner, by dropping down to the level of degradation that you accuse me of.
The primary task of a Hollywood ghost is to spook, whereas Irene has returned on a more diplomatic errand — to explain, to plead, and, as she tells Raimunda, "to ask you to forgive me".
"It's a way of saying, 'Can we talk about what happened in this country?' Can we turn to one another and say, 'I did something wrong, and I ask you to forgive me?' " This is a more complete version of the story than the one that appeared in print.
After moving in, Solzhenitsyn came to a town meeting in 1976 and apologized to his neighbors for getting in the way of snowmobilers and hunters: "I am sorry for that and ask you to forgive me, but I had to protect myself from certain types of disturbances".
Even the 50 cents I am charged for water in the cafe and the Salvation Report I can fill in - "Father, I know I am a sinner and I ask you to forgive me" – do not really bother me, even if the additional question on the Praise Report – "What channel/cable station are you watching?" – feels like marketing, not salvation.
He will ask you to forgive him.
