Quotes About Forgiveness

Moth, that wasn't very nice.

In the Hebrew mind hesed is always something you do. It is a verb. It is loading wounded people on donkeys, running to greet runaway children, forgiving enormous debts, paying someone who worked an hour as much as the ones who worked all day, giving a party to those who can't pay you back. It is a resonant response to the overwhelming kindness of the God of Exodus 34, who is full of hesed.

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

I view people two ways. They're either eye-for-an-eye people or they are turn-the-cheek people.

The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two thousand years and continues to tell us, which is why the Church is here and essentially one of the major reasons why people hate it so much.

Never hate your enemies, it affects you judgment.

You can't just sit there hating the wound, Tan, or indulging in bitterness. Whatever you become in life, always ask yourself, am I making more life or am I making more death?

Do not hate them. They do not know they are evil. They are blind. If you hate them, if you kill them in your heart, they will not die. They will rise up again and again within you, and they will kill your heart.

Eventually he saw that he had been running to Christ, and the flight from the past had been one of the means used by God to propel him forward.

There is only one antidote—to find again the Bridegroom and beg His forgiveness. He will forgive. He is love, and He is truth. He will forgive everything.

While it was true that his father had not cherished him, had constantly disapproved of him, that was an old history that he had completely shaken off, had he not?

came at the impossible moment, and the world, which was powerful and sick unto death, burning and dying in its sins, was born again.

I began to find it more important to forgive my enemy on the day I found out that I am my enemy.

The Lord is virtuous, He has patience in abundance. While we might think we are the ones in need of patience, it is really He who is exercising patience with us. Giving us the much needed time to repent, to realize that His way is the only way. I

This explained to me--and I suppose, forgave me--my inability to see the face of this man, because whoever must deceive us in order to live will by necessity far exceed the skill of ordinary men, who are as much tempted by the desire to be honest as they are plagued by guilt and shame when they have broken faith.

If justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public, then patience is what mercy sounds like out loud, and forgiveness is the accent with which grace speaks.

Knight, still furious about the image thirty years later, was a man acutely attuned to the ravages of shame. Had he done something shameful before he'd fled to the forest? He insisted that he had not.

Von der Mühll devotes almost all his time to the case, trying not to be overly menacing or judgmental. "I can't excuse that, but I can understand," is a phrase the detective is fond of saying.

Do not burn bridges, put a toll on either end.

You priests say to forgive your enemy, and that is well, or revenge follows revenge until eternity. But between a man who will stop at nothing, and one who will hesitate at anything, the advantage is generally to the former. The pagans had it right, too – it is a false peace to be over-forgiving.

89) Dudley And Harry Remained Friends Despite Harry and Dudley not getting along at all when they were kids, they ended up seeing each other several times after the Battle of Hogwarts. They would keep in touch and see one another whenever they were in close proximity of each other. The children hated it, but Dudley and Harry felt an unspoken obligation to be family in one way or another.

grace (free forgiveness when you don't deserve it a bit).

love and honesty are the path to redemption and fulfillment, anything else leads ultimately to tragedy.