Each time he issues yet another apology, Christian leaders tell us, (and those caught in the abusive environment at Mars Hill), that the Christian thing to do is
accept the apology without question and wipe the slate clean in the name of grace and forgiveness.
When your spouse apologizes to you, be sure to
accept the apology without making her feel worse than she already does.
Not exact matches
Should be: ``... (somehow
without accepting that believing in God, and the right God, and then
accepting this God is somehow not a work, even when it is something a person has to do in...»
Apologies.
Apologies, I should note, are
accepted graciously and
without even a hint of smug self - congratulation.
The abused girlfriend can forgive her abuser
without accepting another empty
apology as a sufficient reason for returning to him.
Ologbondiyan said
without listening to the prompting of any politician, Nigerians across the board have taken the liberty to
accept PDP's
apology which was made patriotically in the overall interest of national healing, reconciliation, unity and cohesion.
I think we all long for those people who are strong, smart and loving enough to
accept who we are (or were)
without apology.
Two reasons that I can see: he does not admit to committing libel and if the
apology works, and Heartland
accepts it
without court action and all that that entails (discovery, forensic analysis of his computer hard drives, email accounts, Pacific Institute equipment, etc., etc.), then the misdirection would be successful.
Judith — Do you seriously expect us to
accept that changing the caption and not the graph,
without apology, satisfies clause 1.
-- An
apology that is merely an expression of regret
without a taking of responsibility is much less likely to be psychologically effective or even
accepted by the victim.