Quotes About Forgiveness

The wounds we cause, while unintentional, still bleed.

no matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future. The

The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.

my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

beginning. In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.

What we cannot change, we must endure without bitterness.

Forgive me, Father. Forgive my weakness. Forgive my wondering. Bring me to those beautiful shores of home and let me content my feet in the soft sands of all that you have prepared for me. Let me be thankful for all that you have given, neither hungering nor thirsting for what is not my cup. Your

Do we carry the guilt from the sins of past generations? If so, can we bear the weight of that burden? Trent

I never thought to ask her name, Father, but you know the little mulberry girl as you know each sparrow of the field. You are the white berry that removes the stain.

Someone should tell the dead that saving the living isn't as simple as leaving a note to say, It's no one's fault. For the living, it always feels like someone's fault.

Forgiveness given is forgiveness gained.

One thing that discovering my own history had taught me is that we must learn not to whip ourselves for the failures of others. When a mother cannot love and protect her children, it is not the children who are defective.

I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it. You have to wait for other people to fix themselves.

There are no bad men. Just the lost looking to be found, sister.

I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

Tightening my fingers, I held on. "Honey, the farther you go in life, the more you realize that most people aren't trying to hurt anybody. They're just trying to . . . get by. People don't always make the right decisions—even the people we love. I know Jake loves us. He's just trying to . . . find his way right now.

Sometimes it ain't the drunk or the sinner who needs a shovel across the rear, it's the ones who could quote you chapter and verse about grace, but don't hand it out.

Clinging to the past so hard it was like leaving an arrow embedded instead of pulling it out and letting the wound bleed clean, then heal.

All you need do is ask, Jennia Beth Gibbs. No sense making a thief of yourself, now is there? You keep it . . . and remember that no matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future.

I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving. It isn't her fault, all that comes to pass after that one final, merciless push.

Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see.

Dwelling As though touching her might make him known to himself, as though his hand moving over her body might find who he is, as though he lay inside her, a country his hand's traveling uncovered, as though such a country arose continually up out of her to meet his hand's setting forth and setting forth. And the places on her body have no names. And she is what's immense about the night. And their clothes on the floor are arranged for forgetfulness.

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.