God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.
I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.
I love New York, but I have to admit that I feel very English, and I do miss that sense of history that you have everywhere in Britain.
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.
That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.
The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.
Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned.
Governments are moved by numbers, and the greater the number of people who admit that they believe, the greater the likelihood that the secret - if there is one being kept - will be revealed.
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admit that; he worshiped Jonathan Winters.
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.
