Pastoral Resources

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.