Quotes About Forgiveness

He prayed long and hard for justice and healing, but was a bit light on mercy.

She was the only girl he had ever loved. It ended abruptly when she ditched him for a football player. He carried the wounds for six years until he caught her and killed her. Only then had his pain suddenly vanished, his broken heart was healed. The score was even.

ayudaba a ambas familias, la de las víctimas y

What about the New Testament and Jesus's sermons on forgiveness?" "It's not convenient. He also preached love first, tolerance, acceptance, equality. But most Christians I know are quite good at cherry-picking their way through the Holy Scriptures.

If he neglected Seth as an adult, it was because Seth had neglected him as a little boy. A child is not born with the tendency to neglect; it has to be acquired. Herschel learned from a master.

Paul's story to have a happier ending—for ourselves

Part of being a good kid was learning to overlook the shortcomings of adults.

Creía que no te arrepentías nunca de nada —comentó Mark. —Esto son errores, no arrepentimientos. Se acabaron los arrepentimientos, y es una pérdida de tiempo flagelarse por ellos. Pero los errores son movimientos en falso del pasado que pueden afectar al futuro. Con suerte, los errores pueden contenerse o incluso corregir.

His wife and kids would stick by him, weather the embarrassment and move on. It was, after all, Texas, a land where pasts were easily forgotten if one picked up the pieces and made more money. There was also a certain admiration for outlaws.

She confessed that she hoped to be saved

Satisfied, she calmly turned to Bull, who meekly knelt and sought her forgiveness

forgive you with all my heart, for now, I hope, you shall make an end of all my troubles.

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.

It's not right to hurt or deceive someone who's already been hurt and deceived.

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

Ah, well... I started to say, and then stopped. So that was where he was going; I'd heard it before. Richard had told me that I'd not been standing in my mother's shoes in 1942, when I was born; he'd said I couldn't, or shouldn't, judge her. It was my not forgiving her that irked him-it was my intolerance of her intolerance that bugged him.

Don't grown-ups ever get over things?

Even Clark French's novels exerted a tenacious and combative goodwill: his main characters, lost souls and serial sinners, always found redemption; the act of redeeming usually followed a moral low point; the novels predictably ended in a crescendo of benevolence.

Most dump kids are believers; maybe you have to believe in something when you see so many discarded things.

Do not forget the past; forgive the past.

The good gringo asked Lupe if she forgave him for sleeping with her mother. "Yes," Lupe said, "but we can't ever get married.

If you can't forgive your mother, Jack, you'll never be free of her. It's for your own sake, you know – for your soul. When you forgive someone who's hurt you, it's like escaping your skin – you're that free, outside yourself, where you can see everything.

Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Franny was awful to him, but Franny was not awful; and Frank was not really awful to any of us, except he (himself) was, somehow, awful.