This quick-fix forgiveness, created by Colin Tipping promises to wipe the slate clean.
National political figures are now quick to ask forgiveness when they've offended delicate sensibilities; conversely, they rarely take responsibility for truly poor decisions and harmful policies.
But Father Ptitsyn, who is the rector of the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross, the Russian Orthodox parish closest to the courthouse where the members of the band, called Pussy Riot, are now on trial, was not so quick to offer forgiveness of his own.
Instead, be quick to ask forgiveness for what you did.
Don't look too eager or quick for her forgiveness, but don't move slowly or she will take it as reluctance, and perhaps be offended.
Find forgiveness by forgiving yourself.
Forgiveness and truth telling are praised in several verses of Quran, for example: "Be quick in the race for forgiveness from your Lord, and for a Garden whose width is that (of the whole) of the heavens and of the earth, prepared for the righteous.
But he's heard himself, and seemingly amused is quick to point out that forgiveness wasn't even a concept yet, or a word, still eons away from a certain slithering and the likes of us.
While many in our religious communities are quick to make proclamations about forgiveness, they often find it to be too difficult to live out in daily life.
"He was very quick to take my hand of forgiveness".
