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.

It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.

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.

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.

But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.

If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

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

I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Friends are God's apology for relations.

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.

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

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

While the meeting I participated in turned out to be a ruse, I made statements during the course of the meeting that are counter to NPR's values and also not reflective of my own beliefs. I offer my sincere apology to those I offended.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

I don't have any issues with clowns - I feel like I owe them an apology in some ways.

I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

I've become a master of the apology.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later.

The ruling ethos of Seattle is forlorn apology for our animal impulses.

This apology is not just to Bernie Sanders. It is to donors. It is to anyone and everyone that clearly we offended. And the e-mails that were revealed that were hacked.

Trump apologized for nothing, including the horrible tape, right? No apology.

We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.

I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.