forgiveness

Example Sentences

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It required immediately paying the money due, filing the correct tax forms to fix the mistake and asking for forgiveness for the penalties.

From MarketWatch

He often spoke of putting forgiveness ahead of censure and judgment.

From The Wall Street Journal

The community’s emphasis on forgiveness—“the worst sin of all,” says Nash, “is to be unforgiving”—makes Hercule’s task of assigning blame more difficult.

From The Wall Street Journal

Early Christians were acutely aware that they were sinners, that they would be judged in death for what they had done in life, that they needed to atone and seek God’s forgiveness.

From The Wall Street Journal

Nelson Mandela declared that the mentality of revenge destroys nations, while the mentality of forgiveness builds them.

From Salon