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Don’t say “I’m sorry” if you don’t believe you’ve done anything wrong.
Don’t say “I’m sorry” if you think you can justify what you have done.
Don’t say “I’m sorry” if you regret the consequences, but not the action.
Don’t say “I’m sorry” unless you fully intend never to do it again.
I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.
—2 Corinthians 7:9–10
by David
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Kim in ON
My husband and I have always told our children, "Don't say 'sorry' if it's going to followed by the word 'but.'"
donsands
I thought "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
Just kiddin'.
I remember so many times I told my wife I was sorry with a "but you" not far behind. God has helped me by his grace, and power, to have a different heart about saying I'm sorry, and please forgive me, when I have sinned agianst my wife, and anyone really. It's still difficult at times, and the pride in me grips me, but I learned to ask for forgiveness, and to forgive, is the easy yoke Jesus spoke of, and so I try an focus on that. To not forgive, and keep bitterness within the heart is the heaviest of yokes.
David
I thought every married man knows love means always having to say you’re sorry.