Quotes About Forgiveness

81. What I know: when I met you, a blue rush began. I want you to know, I no longer hold you responsible.

I suppose it is possible that one day we will meet again and it will feel as if nothing ever happened between us. This seems unimaginable, but the fact is that it happens all the time. "No whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory / of whiteness," wrote Williams. But one can lose the memory of whiteness, too.

That had done it. Esme had turned at that one. She had snatched up the protractor of Catriona McFarlane, high priestess of the tittering club, and pointed it at her like a divining rod. 'You know what you are, Catriona McFarlane?' Esme had said. 'You are a sad creature. You are mean-spirited, soulless. You are going to die alone and lonely. Do you hear me?

It's you Tempest I told her. Not her. It's been you all along. I'm sorry it took me so long to tell you.... I made her trust me to save you.

A wound inflicted by arrows heals, a wood cut down by an axe grows, but harsh words are hateful?a wound inflicted by them does not heal. Arrows of different sorts can be extracted from the body, but a word-dart cannot be drawn out, for it is seated in the heart.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

All roads lead to you, even those I took to forget you.

You are struck with a sour feeling of regret for a mistake you did not commit: You are not responsible for what happened.

He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door.

We may understand again, therefore, from this picture, that God's purpose in the cross of Jesus Christ was two-fold: first that we might be forgiven, being saved from sin's penalty because Christ died for us, and secondly, that we might be delivered from sin's power, because this old sinful nature, called the flesh, died with Him.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Que tu sabiduría no sea humillación para tu prójimo. Guarda el dominio de ti mismo y nunca te abandones a la cólera. Si esperas la paz definitiva, sonríe al destino que te hiere y no hieras a nadie.

Una vez es suficiente —explicó el maestro— cuando el juez, tras el análisis de la causa, se decida por el perdón. Diez veces, sin embargo, deberá pensar el magistrado siempre que esté inclinado a dar sentencia condenatoria

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

Acknowledgment of error is not error. A person who sincerely tells the spirit that he did something wrong cannot be punished anymore. The wrong itself is its own punishment. Power

Sorry implies that if you could go back, you'd do things differently. We both know that you wouldn't change a thing.

Her life was her major disappointment, her mistakes carved into every premature line in her face, but I wasn't going to let her use my life as her second chance.

You see, I'll never get out of hell if there's not even you left to pray for me

We all make mistakes in our youth of which we are ashamed. The difference is that the rest of us can forgive the child we were and believe in the honour of the adult we have become. - Gwyddhien

We all make mistakes in our youth of which we are ashamed. The difference is that the rest of us can forgive the ignorance of the child we were and believe in the honour of the adult we have become.