Quotes About Forgiveness

But for some reason, many people enjoy living in the past, especially if going back there lets them blame someone else for anything that's gone wrong in their lives. That's when clinging to the past becomes an interpersonal problem. We use the past as a weapon against others.

Lamenting the past is a waste of time. I learned my lesson. Let's move on." That's one way of looking at regret—if only as a form of self-protection from the pain of knowing we missed out. We're comforted by the fact that no one is immune to regret (we're not alone) and that time heals all wounds (the only thing worse than experiencing pain is not knowing if and when the pain will go away).

Apology is where behavioral change begins.

Apologizing is a magic move. Only the hardest of hearts will fail to forgive a person who admits they were wrong. Apology is where behavioral change begins.

getting mad at people for being who they are makes as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.

Nadie niega que las obras malas no son aceptables a Dios. Eso es obvio. El argumento es que ni siquiera las buenas obras nos hacen aceptables a Dios. Merecen su ira, no su favor.

Tell him the truth and keep it short. No one actually cares about all the reasons you did something wrong. It's a half-assed way of saying you're sorry, not sorry. Admit what you did and stand in it.

And you, Correk," said Turner. "You can choose to stay angry and remember what Harkin did. Most would feel that's the appropriate choice. Protect yourself from future hurt. Frankly, that's utter bullshit. You would be signing up to carry a duffel bag of shit on your back and occasionally leaning back to take a good whiff. I don't personally recommend it.

Mamma said that when you don't love someone one bit, you have to try to see them like Jesus would. It's a hard thing to do. Even Mamma has to squint sometimes.

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I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy. You can't build on it. It is only for wallowing in. —KATHERINE MANSFIELD

He wanted to give her a chance to yell at him in private before he apologized.

Vengeance is mine, saith The Lord." I double-checked and it doesn't say, "Vengeance is mine and Tess's.

It's so easy to go from love to hate. But from hate back to love, that's the hard part.

Bad things are always going to happen in life. People will hurt you. But you can't use that as an excuse to fail or to hurt someone back. You only hurt yourself.

There are great mysteries in this world that only God understands. But this I do understand. No mistake you may have ever made is bigger than God's power to fix it.

You've let the past come between you and God. Turn the past over to Him. He is strong enough to take it. Give Him your future, too. And He'll make you strong enough to face it.

We mess up sometimes. You haven't exactly thrown Him for a loop, you know. He can handle it.

If God is willing to forgive you, who are you not to forgive yourself? You think you know better than God?

Often what we may consider to be sins against ourselves are actually sins against God. For instance, when we condemn ourselves we are playing god. When we worry and fret we are not trusting Him - and that is sinning against God, not against ourselves. Therefore, those are sins against God for Him to forgive.

Blameshifting began immediately after the Fall and has been a sinful tendency ever since. In fact, God's commandment for children to honor their parents was a command against blaming parents.

there is no Jezebel remedy. There's no conscience chemo. No pill for cheating. No therapeutic number of Hail Marys or blow jobs or home-cooked meals or good-wife deeds.

He never had been good at arguing with women; they tapped into pools of resentment over slights that had steeped for years.