Quotes About Forgiveness

One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone …and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.

Some people there's no getting over.

Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.

I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes.

Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.

It seemed that no matter what her faults were, he was willing to accept her for who she was, and who she was not.

You can't love someone new without getting over the last one.

When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.

I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find it in places you weren't even looking. But the original wound would never heal. I would carry it with me forever, and so would Tara. That was the trick . . . accepting it, going on with your life, knowing it was part of you.

You shouldn't rule out second chances. Sometimes they come with interesting bonus features.

It is no secret that Louis van Gaal and I did not get along. But for me personally, the matter is closed and forgotten.

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

What Peter Jackson proved with 'Lord Of The Rings' movies is that you could make various changes, and you could pull things around, but as long as it was in the spirit of the storytelling, and because he made The Shire so real, the fans forgave him for the changes.

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

Ray would be in trouble, he would get drunk, he would try and kill J.R on three different occasions, he would make mistakes with financial affairs, and have various human problems, but he didn't have any mean bones in his body! That was a little bit of what the show was about.

I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons.

I cannot avoid forgiving everybody that threw a brick at me during my various campaigns, so I think it's important for all of us to bury that and say, 'OK, we need to look forward' - we've got to move forward from 'never Trump' to 'never Hillary.'

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.

People have been unkind to me, but I do not want to swear vengeance. I am a simple human being.

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

I strongly believe vengeance is not mine; it is for God to decide.

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment.