Quotes About Forgiveness

Our friendship isn't perfect, we fight and then we makeup, we yell and then we talk. We don't always get along but whether I'm up or I'm down you're always around. You're there for me on my good days and my bad days and this Thanksgiving Holiday I'd like to say thank you for being a true friend. Happy Thanksgiving!

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves. -1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Sometimes the villain becomes a victim

Supposedly you drink to forget. The trouble is you don't forget, you remember—all the old insults and hatreds, real and imagined.

Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.

Saying something mean and then claiming you're not yourself doesn't take the hurt away.

We cannot love our enemies until we see those twin truths: God loves me. God loves them.

I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

Mary E. DeMuth

Your past will either haunt you or it will break you enough to reach for rescue.

Nothing you can do will separate you from His love. Nothing you don't do will separate you from His love. Nothing done to you will separate you from His love.

If one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything. Some things can't be forgiven.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

I do hope the things I've forgotten don't matter.

I beg your forgiveness, Your Eminence. I would not truly feed your face to the hogs. It might make them sick.

I'm not the farmer I claimed to be, but I hope I can make you fall in love with me again, this time as a prince, one day at a time. We've had a terrible start—it doesn't mean we can't have a better ending.

I don't care what mistakes I made or what mistakes you made. I'd make every single one again, if that was the only way to be with you

But I would always see her. Until I drew my last breath, it would always be her face I saw when I closed my eyes at night, and her face again when I woke each morning. I would force myself to forget the last words I heard from her lips. I would remember others. I love you, Jafir de Aldrid. Words that, now, I was sure I had never deserved. I

The queen once told me there were a hundred ways to fall in love. Maybe there were a hundred ways to find and give forgiveness too. I think I had already found a few of them.

Some scars took longer to heal than others, and some scars, I knew, were necessary. Some things you should never forget.

White There was a moment in the darkness when the fear lifted. A moment where white surrounded me. Hope. Lily, and someone else, and a sprinkling of water. "Holy water, Jenna." "You can let go if you need to." "Forgiveness, Jenna." But I couldn't let go. It wasn't in my power. I was already swirling, flying, falling. To someplace deep I didn't understand. Where all the sounds buy my own voice disappeared. Only me. For so long. I don't want to be alone anymore. (120)

Some betrayals ran too deep to ever forgive.

Wait," I said, and they paused mid-stride. "Thank you. Rafe told me you were the best of Dalbreck's soldiers. Now I know that he didn't overestimate your abilities." I turned to Sven. "And I'm sorry I threatened to feed your face to the hogs." Sven smiled. "All in a day's work, Your Highness," he said, and then he bowed. *

grabbed my dagger and prayed for Adeline's forgiveness as I altered the dress she had lent me, and Vilah's forgiveness too as I pried free a long piece of chain from her chain-mail belt. I would attend the party just as he had asked, but I would attend as the person I was—not the one he wanted me to be.