Quotes About Forgiveness

An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made.

It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that?

Sometimes you hurt the people you love. And sometimes you love the people who hurt you.

The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

I think...she said finally, that all of us have got our ghosts.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal, Leo says. They're not mutually exclusive.

You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit. Even the Lord's Prayer says it loud and clear: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Not others. What Jesus challenges us to do is to let go of the wrong done to you personally, not the wrong done to someone else. But most Christians incorrectly assume that this means that being a good christian means forgiving all sins, and the sinners.

What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

Sometimes, you have to make the choice to forgive 10 times a day when you have these pockets of anger come up. That's a lot of work, but to me it's worthwhile.

Do not regret mistakes you have done in past or changes you made. Think of your life as a book,read the present, close one chapter & open another, some pages may be your waste of time, learn from your mistake but focus on next page & it's your future.

Love's hard, especially for those who dont know how to trust, how to listen and how to forgive again and again...

The most difficult thing to do in life is to love the unlovable.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

Give me a chance and I'll never hurt you, give me a chance to show you that I'm not like the rest, just give me a chance to be with you.

Its easy Loving someone who makes you happy, but to love them after they've hurting you is a task....

Don't make the mistake of hurting someone who loves you, for someone who hurts you and dosent love you at all.

Somebodies gonna hurt you the way you love to keep hurting me.