Not Accepting Apology Quotes & Sayings

An apology is supposed to be a communion - a coming together. For someone to make an apology, someone has to be listening. They listen and you speak and there's an exchange. That's why we have a thing about accepting apologies. — Jon Ronson

We can not communicate with the Lord if we do not communicate with each other. If we want to present ourselves to him, we must take a step towards meeting one another. To do this we must learn the great lesson of forgiveness: we must not let the gnawings of resentment work in our soul but must open our hearts to the magnanimity of listening to others, open our hearts to understanding them, eventually to accepting their apologies, to generously offering our own. — Pope Benedict XVI

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology. — Janet Macunovich

Accepting the apology signals the acknowledgment of a need to move forward, but not necessarily together. — John Kador

Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality. — Rajneesh