Quotes About Forgiveness

Love is not this simple thing. Love isn't this obvious thing. It's not about that first moment of knowing. It's about what you keep doing after you break each other's hearts. It's about choosing each other on terrible days as well as on beautiful ones. It's about picking each other up off the floor and then laughing about it later. You can go pretty far into disaster as long as you're willing to look at each other again. You can fix a lot of failures. You can fail as long as you keep trying.

Det er klart disse unge hadde handlet i god tro, en måtte vel tilgi dem. Skjønt de fleste syntes nok at ungdommer nå til dags var litt vel foretaksomme.

Don't let the violence of your past blind you from the peace in your present. Lutti

I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.

I studied the shape of my friend's hands, and how he clasped them. I could smell his skin and hair in the cold air of the church, and stood aching, my face a devout mask stretched over a rotten soul. On

We were reconciled, of course we were; things were now too far gone between us to be broken for a Roger Rowly.

Forgiveness is letting go of the need to feel like a victim. Work on it. You'll lighten your load—the load of negativity you carry around.

If you from sin are longing to be free, Look to the Lamb of God He, to redeem you, died on Calvary, Look to the Lamb of God.

Danny smiles. Really smiles--like it means a lot that I'm not mad at him anymore. And then I figure out something weird: that you can be important to someone who doesn't mean much to you. But that once you find that out--that you mean something to them--it's hard not to feel that they mean something to you.

You lose a lot of time, hating people.

The soul sees the body and says: I think I know him from somewhere… The body sees the souls and says: Forgive me!

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

El perdón es el nombre cristiano de la venganza».

La misericordia, el amor al prójimo, el amor a los que nos aman, el amor a los que nos odian! —murmuró entre dientes—. Debemos ser misericordiosos incluso con nuestros enemigos. Este es el amor que Dios predicó entre los hombres, el amor que me aconsejaba la princesa María y que yo no sabía comprender. Es por esto por lo que siento morir. Si viviera, amaría a todos mis enemigos, pero ahora ya es demasiado tarde. ¡Ya lo sé!

We forget what we say much more than what we hear, what we write much more than what we read, what we send much more than what we receive, and that is why we barely count the insults we hand out to others, unlike those dealt out to us, which is why almost everyone harbors some grudge against someone.

Let my son never forget the last words of his father, which I repeat emphatically; let him never seek to avenge our deaths.

You and I are not held to the same standards, Andrew. People will forgive a slip, a weakness, a minor personal folly — when it comes from a man. They may click their tongues at you, even gossip about your behavior…but at worst, it will only reflect on you. "If I misstep, it goes far beyond me. Errors on my part are proof that women are unsuited to professional work.

Everyone is always doing the best they can. Blame and resentment have no place here. But it's important to recognize that, whether positive or negative, our environment is one of the most significant sources of our current beliefs.

Each of us suffers with envy/for the forgiven.