Quotes About Forgiveness

Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

Forgiveness is a conscious choice to become more liberated and less constrained by the past. This simple act of changing one's mindset can be the wellspring of tolerance, mercy, and compassion.

My belief that everyone is a person, no matter what they've done, and that taking a human life is wrong.

Forgiveness before one's death, isn't just about asking and receiving it, it's also about forgiving others.

if the goddes can forgive her, can't we?""I think there's a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn't just because she's dead

I'm sorry, I didn't mean--""To speak of it?" asked the K'mir. Diane nodded. "You have to, just to bleed off the poison from the memory.

He's gone now. He did something terrible, but...he did good things, too. And he kept us well. And it's all right if you are sad.

Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.

His guilt swelled up, churning like a paddle wheel in his stomach. He wanted desperately to flee. How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.

Don't let your past determine your destiny.

God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.

I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must die like a man.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.