Quotes About Forgiveness

I have never one day been ashamed of my son. Even when he was not right, that's ok.

I have made mistakes, but I feel that the people who have done things to me - they should be ashamed.

Some of the things I've done in my life I'm ashamed of.

We all have things we're ashamed of.

Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting!

Sempre que uma mulher chega a se arrepender de suas fraquezas, passa uma esponja sobre a sua vida, a fim de tudo apagar.

But in the confessional, or at night, when praying, she wept often, imploring God's forgiveness for the apostasy of the man who thought the contrary of what he professed, and who desired the destruction of the aristocracy and the Church, — the two religions of the house of Cormon.

It is your manner, my dear. When a young man comes up to speak to you, you look so serious that a spiteful person might believe you doubtful of your own virtue. You seem to fear lest a smile should undo you. You really look as if you were asking forgiveness of God for the sins that may be committed around you. The world, my dearest, is not a convent. — But, as you mentioned your dress, I may confess to you that it is no less a duty to conform to the customs and fashions of Society.

So compose yourself; do not exaggerate your misfortune. A priest whose hair has grown white in the exercise of his functions is not a boy; you will be understood by him to whom every passion has been confided for nearly fifty years now, and who weighs in his hands the ponderous heart of kings and princes. If he is stern under his stole, in the presence of your flowers he will be as tender as they are, and as indulgent as his Divine Master.

Se mai uitase o dat? la poetul r?pus de pl?ceri, se îmb?tase f?r? s? se sature de iubirea cea nobil?, care unea sim?urile cu inima ?i inima cu sim?urile, ca s? le ridice în înaltul cerului împreun?. Divinizarea aceasta, care face s? fim doi pe p?mânt ca s? sim?im, ?i unul singur în cer ca s? iubim, însemna pentru dânsa iertarea p?catelor.

He felt in his heart a sort of remorse which bid him respect a creature that had done him no harm.

There are those for whom a woman would love to make such a sacrifice; even if, as often happens, it is for the sake of a man who cannot make allowances for an outbreak of temper.

The fires of remorse burned in his heart, and gave him intolerable pain, the generous secret remorse which men seldom take into account when they sit in judgement upon their fellow-men; but perhaps the angels in heaven, beholding it, pardon the criminal whom our justice condemns.

How to explain what it was like to be Black to this white woman who wasn't even southern? That a Black child didn't have a right to hate their Black mama? Hatred was not allowed against your parents, no matter what had happened. You had to forgive your parents for whatever they had done even if they'd never apologized, because everybody had to stay together. So much had been lost already to Black folks.

He didn't know that you could ache for a place, even when it had hurt you so badly.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness

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Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.

I can forget injuries, but never benefits.

Nor have I forgotten sir. that the charity of his daughter delivered me from his power. I can forget injuries but never benefits.

A la una de la mañana la ligera indigestión había desaparecido, y como pasa fatalmente con todos los matrimonios jóvenes que se han amado intensamente, una vez siquiera, la reconciliación llegó, tanto más efusiva cuanto hiriente fueron los agravios.

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.