Sentence examples for earn forgiveness from inspiring English sources

I do not know what we will have to do to earn forgiveness".

These local souls may be "fallen," but Gurganus seems well aware that the biblical fall also implies a promise: the chance to earn forgiveness, and perhaps even redemption.

Come on – up and at 'em!" Though the guilt and redemption route is the approved alibi that enables erring public figures to earn forgiveness, there remains a quite understandable fascination with people who refuse to follow its feeble code.

With a "we're a part of the problem, too" acknowledgment, all the actors earn forgiveness for their winking self-parodies, though Mr. Pittu has the least to be forgiven for.

At the Soviet embassy, she is told that it is all very well to confess in private to having made a mistake, but if she wants to return she must now "earn forgiveness".

Why not turn to offenders and ask them to earn forgiveness?

Ben Cockayne wrapped up the win by touching down Ben Galea's grubber kick, and if Cockayne offended traditionalists by kissing a team-mate's cheek in celebration, the fierce commitment of this Rovers performance would surely have earned forgiveness.

The novel's end invites -- though, in my view, does not earn -- forgiveness.

Mr. Conn made one last attempt to earn the forgiveness of Mr. Feather.

(He didn't say what the Liberian people had to do to earn his forgiveness).

And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead".