Sentence examples for gain forgiveness from inspiring English sources

He is acknowledging that you have to forgive, even to gain forgiveness.

"To be frank, I would consider it dishonest to claim regret simply to gain forgiveness by critics," he said.

Because of an extramarital affair with his wife's sister, a postulant nun, by whom he had a child, Valdemar in 1274 made a pilgrimage to Rome to gain forgiveness.

He also lays out reasons why the United States and Saudi Arabia at the time supported and financed the jihadis: American politicians, wanting to bleed the Soviets and even the score for Vietnam; the Saudi ruling family, wanting to ratify its fundamentalist bona fides, gain forgiveness for its own profligacy, and rid the kingdom of young troublemakers.

While women have not been "queuing up around the corner of their church" over the last year in a desperate attempt to gain forgiveness, O'Brien said, Francis's move was significant because it also appeared to represent an appeal to his fellow bishops and priests to look at the issue of abortion with less condemnation, and focus more on "reconciliation".

My husband and I were sitting together, in the dark, outside on our front steps and in that moment of trying to gain forgiveness from each other for the things we had just allowed to come from our mouths, I realized that I hadn't been giving my husband 100% of who he deserves as a wife.

Gaining forgiveness may be important for a contrite wrongdoer, but the act can be equally significant for the forgiver.

But some Knicks fans still feel Thomas should spend the rest of his life trying to gain their forgiveness.

Once we avoid the intended action or apologize to the harmed person and gain their forgiveness, the relationship recovers and our guilt dissolves.

Why, despite mutual interest and real shared affection, have two women, the same age, from the same town, with so much to gain from forgiveness, become so terribly re-estranged?

It was going to take something special to gain fans' forgiveness after cancelling day one of Digital Dreams; without the Guvernment at their disposal, the Sound Academy was the necessary link for Ink between a poor first impression and their second chance at success.