Quotes About Forgiveness

One who comes to God in repentance relies on God's mercy alone. He says, "I can do nothing. I cannot undo what I have done. I cannot pay the debt that I have incurred. All I can do is to place my life in God's hands, and be at his mercy, and let him do whatever he wants with me." This attitude is already an effect of God's mercy at work. He changes the will of the sinner and grants him the gift of repentance.

E eu me deixarei ir não sem reflexão, mas sem insistir em lamentar coisas que poderiam ter acontecido.

sometimes, the past should not only be forgotten, it should be destroyed.

As St. Faustina writes, "The miracles of mercy are impenetrable. Neither the sinner nor the just one will fathom them" (Diary, 1215).

Confessing my sins is not enough. Forgiveness is not enough. I need to abandon sin. I need to restore to God what I have deprived Him of —a loving response to His love. God is calling us to respond to His love with our whole being, so that He can change our hearts and make them like His: Go, and sin no more. … Love as I have loved you. … Forgive as you have been forgiven. … Be merciful as your Heavenly Father is merciful. … Be holy, for I, your God, am holy.

Press no further with hate.

What does the cross mean?" I ask him. "Crucifix. I don't know exactly. Jesus hanging in agony, nailed to boards. But it's a reminder." "Of what?" "Well. Of—Well, evil. That evil's always gonna be around, and you deal with it.

It is impossible to go backward and undo the past. All you can do is live with the present and try to make the best of the future.

God might never have wanted blacks to be hauled to this country as slaves, but now that we're here, I know for certain he wants the hatin' to stop. It's our job to make sure it happens, at least in our own hearts. I reckon those are the only ones we can really answer for.

When people fight something with hate and anger, they close the doors to actual change because they close the doors of the person's heart

The symbol [of the cross] often swallows the historic scandal that gave it birth and appeases the appalling experience with which the first generation of Christians had to come to terms.

A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.

Do not hate anybody because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run come back to you If you love that love will come back to you completing the circle

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

To forgive the terrorists is up to God, but to send them there is up to me.

To forgive the terrorists is up to god but to send them to him is up to me.

We didn't believe in tomorrow. We we couldn't forget what had happened yesterday.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly — that is the first law of nature.

Love truth, and pardon error.

We are all full of weakness and errors, let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.

The only true way to forgive someone, it seems to me, is to forget what they have done to you and, in turn, forget them. Whether that is possible is another question.

Grandma laughed dryly. "I think we old people sometimes forget that childhood isn't all fun and games. You're coping with a lot of things right now. But hurting other people because inside you're hurting yourself is no solution to anything. I don't think you are a bad person at heart, Grant. But if you feel that impulse again you can't act on it. It doesn't matter how righteous you are if you let yourself do awful things.

No hay perros malos, Bobby. Solo hay personas malas. Estos solo necesitan amor.