Quotes About Forgiveness

Os pido que me excuseis, señor. No lo he hecho a propósito.

We have a Savior Who took on our humanity to take on our shame. We have a God Who knows the pain of betrayal, abandonment, humiliation, and violence, Who shows us that wounds can be healed and can be purified. It's okay if your past is messy.

We don't always recognize mercy when we see it. It isn't always what we want or think we need, but it's there. It's here.

There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.

We have to make mistakes, it's how we learn compassion for others.

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

Reconciliation: Our Greatest Challenge--Our Only Hope.

reconciliation is radical because it is biblical.

forgiveness is a choice. It doesn't arrive on fairy wings; it doesn't descend from the sky for you to take or leave. Forgiveness is an action." Flora

She believed in second chances, sometimes more than first chances, which were wasted on youth and indiscretion

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Her eyes searched his. "Don't hate me, don't—" His head shook. "Sweetheart…" The endearment slipped from him. "Do I look like I give a damn about what you've done?

John had just released "Imagine," the song that would become an international anthem for peace, telling the world to "live as one," yet he couldn't pick up the phone, make peace with me and arrange to see his own son. Surely, I reasoned, Julian meant more to him than some foolish agreement with Yoko about dealing with each other's ex-partner. I was wrong. It was three years before John saw Julian again.

Maybe it's kinder not to remember, because you don't have to grieve.

Dogs always forgive you when they know you're sorry. And so do star friends" -Lily

I got to thinking—when it was too late—you have to reach out to people. To your family, too. You can't just let them sit there, you should put your hand out. If they slap it back, well you reach out again if you care enough. If you don't care enough, you forget about them, if you can.

Regret, to no end, in every hour Of a long life. What beautiful work Will redeem the heartbeats of a living creature And what use to confess deeds that last forever?

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting.

Your relationship may be "Breaking Up," but you won't be "Breaking Down." If anything your correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet.

If we hate people it does not hurt them at all... it hurts ourselves.

It is a terrible thing to be angry with the dead.

Because I'm a Christian.' She had been pushed beyond the limit of her endurance and the words had burst out without thinking . . . but of course it was true. That really was the answer; for if you were a Christian you had to forgive people who showed contrition, no matter what they had done. She had no idea what 'Uncle Randal' had done, but he was sorry and wanted to end the feud. If you did not forgive other people you could not expect forgiveness from God . . .

wrote to Kitty saying that I was sorry for what had occurred and asking her to come to see me if she was in town, but I had no reply. Kitty vanished out of my life. She was angry with me, I knew. She had wanted me to lie, and I would not lie—I could not.

Looking back I remembered other occasions when Miles had let me down; this was not the first time—nor the second time. I had made excuses for him because I had admired him so tremendously.