Quotes About Forgiveness

heard all the grown-ups kiss Franny good night and I thought: Families must be like this—gore one minute, forgiveness the next.

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Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure: fret not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do evil.

to err is human, to forgive, divine." "You like Shakespeare, do you?

For every nice thing I ever done for you, I just get kicked around. I want to be treated nice by somebody before I die. You learnt everything, Ignatius, except how to be a human being

I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry.

There may be areas in which our outer person thinks we have forgiven others—especially those most formative to us in childhood—but counsel and prayer reveal that such forgiveness is far from complete. It may be that coping mechanisms from childhood are still causing us to act and react in childish ways (see 1 Corinthians 13:11). Or bitter roots may have sprung back to life, causing us to defile others and reap harmful consequences that we cannot, without counsel, even explain.

Always turn to God in the midst of your struggle and view people who offended you as an instruments of divine sovereignty.

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

Don't try to change or tear your brother down, let him make his mistakes and he will come around.

What I want to do first with education is my student loan idea. Basically, if you go into teaching and teach for five years, your student loans should be forgiven. It doesn't cost that much.

If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you.

Because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, we can learn from our experience without being condemned by our experience.

I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

You have to experience grace to be one who knows how to give it.

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.