Quotes About Forgiveness

the four statements that lead to wisdom: I don't know. I need help. I was wrong. I'm sorry.

Non. He said, 'Be very, very careful who you let into your life. And learn to make peace with whatever happens. You can't erase the past. It's trapped in there with you. But you can make peace with it. If you don't,' he said, 'you'll be at perpetual war.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

It was one thing to forgive, it was another to climb back into the cage with that bear, even if it was wearing a tutu and smiling.

told him the four sentences that lead to wisdom. He'd said them only once, never repeating them. But once had been enough for Gamache. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.

Old sins have long shadows," said Gamache. "And this is an old sin.

Clara didn't carry a grudge. They were too heavy and she had too far to go.

There are four statements that lead to wisdom. I want you to remember them and follow them. Are you ready?' Agent Lemieux had taken out his notebook and, pen poised, he'd listened. 'You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help and I was wrong.

The fault is here, but so is the solution. That's the grace.

And while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.

the four sentences that lead to wisdom. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.

You're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

Good hearts get hurt. Good hearts get broken, Armand. And then they lash out.

She suspected if they looked in Gamache's bedside table, they'd find all sorts of lost souls he put there for safekeeping. And maybe a baguette.

he'd come to agree with Sister Prejean that no one was as bad as the worst thing they'd done.

There are four things that lead to wisdom. You ready for them?' She nodded, wondering when the police work would begin. "They are four sentences we learn to say, and mean." Gamache held up his hand as a fist and raised a finger with each point. 'I don't know. I need help. I'm sorry. I was wrong'.

Irene Finney filled the void with a child not loved then lost, but first lost, then loved.

You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?" Myrna

I know how precious life is. You had no right to take Renaud's and you have no right to take your own now. Not over this. Too much death. It needs to stop.

She'd forgotten to love, but she also forgot to hate. (about Clara's mother, who had dementia)

holding on to resentments only binds you to the person you hate.

Who hurt you once / so far beyond repair / that you would greet each overture / with curling lip? It

Far greater than Gamache's anger was his caring.

But he'd come to agree with Sister Prejean that no one was as bad as the worst thing they'd done. Armand Gamache had seen the worst. But he'd also seen the best. Often in the same person.