Sentence examples for granting forgiveness from inspiring English sources

Nobody was asking for or granting forgiveness or reparations for slavery.

Maimonides may well be right, but such a test would be far too long to wait before granting forgiveness.

Rather, in granting forgiveness, a victim of wrong re-orients a relationship that has been disrupted or compromised by wrongdoing.

Imagery of granting forgiveness (versus not) was associated with less heart rate reactivity and better recovery; less negative emotion expression at the brow (corrugator EMG); and less aroused expression at the eye (lower orbicularis oculi EMG when justice was absent).

Studies show holding onto anger erodes one's health while granting forgiveness enhances it.

It's only when we fear less that we can become more open to making amends and granting forgiveness.

Before judging their lack of remorse, however, if Mr. Elie desires to use Christ as his model, perhaps he, too, should grant forgiveness.

Neither use nor abuse by men was her interpreter, and neither was history, really — Brooks never sought nor has she been granted forgiveness from anyone, herself least of all.

This is a little more akin to a medieval ritual in which the offender makes a public avowal of his sins and is thus granted forgiveness, and possibly a plenary indulgence.

It's worth spending a good time with the package, which includes looks at the historical meaning of the gesture — from Alexander Hamilton's worries about juries to the trouble Ford had with Nixon and Bill Clinton did with Marc Rich — and looks deeply at those who have been granted forgiveness, and those who have not.

Among its various consequences, intoxication opens us up to other people, and Scruton maintains that this wine-induced sociability serves a much larger purpose than merely rendering us chatty: it enables us to both seek and grant forgiveness for "the impertinence of existing" (now, perhaps, you understand the need to have a glass of wine by your side).