“penitence is more attainable than permission.”
“How much more complicated life is than the attainment of a Ph.D. would lead one to believe!”
“Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?”
“It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?”
“It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.”
“It is better to ask for an apology than to ask for permission.”