Quotes About Forgiveness

Conocer es perdonar, dicen. No, perdonar es conocer. Primero el amor, el conocimiento después.

La caridad encubre todos los pecados», decía san Pedro.

La caridad olvida, el perdón es olvido. ¡Ay del que persona sin olvidar! Es la más diabólica venganza... Hay que perdonarle al criminal su crimen, al virtuoso su virtud,al soberbio su soberbia, al humilde su humildad. Hay que perdonarles a todos el haber nacido...

Mai bine astfel, intr-o privinta: sa-l stie mort, decat parasit de casa lui, in bratele alteia si-n asternut strain.

Stern endorses Pascal's maxim "To understand is to forgive." In fact, one of the most exciting opportunities in being a writer, he feels, is to take a villain or criminal character and make him human by showing what caused him to be so.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. —OSCAR WILDE

We don't want people to understand forgiveness or prayer or mission or justice only intellectually. We want people who can forgive, who can hear and respond to God, who actually know Him. We want people who have hearts that break for our world and the people in it and do something about it. We want the kind of people in our communities who resemble the people we see in Scripture.

Let they who are without a shameful past cast the first grenade.

There's always room to be someone else, and there's always somewhere people will be willing to let the past slide." He

There can only be a need for forgiveness when first there is blame. And there can only be blame, when first there is misunderstanding.

When someone behaves poorly, it's always because they've forgotten how powerful they really are, how beautiful life is, and how much they're loved. Always.

Let your guilt teach you, not punish you. And let the guilt of others do the same for them, no matter how grave their misunderstandings.

wouldn't a loving gather, I reasoned, have more compassion than to seek revenge on His comparatively feeble children who are temporarily blinded by the illusions of time and space?

Dwelling upon what once hurt you will only bring new surprises, new losses, more disappointments—new reasons to be hurt.

Your tormentors, past, present, and future, are lost in their own confusion and anguish. They didn't set out to hurt you, but to make some sense of a world that was hurting them.

Without words like blame, victim, and fault, I do believe about 50% of the unhappiness in the world would be cured.

Seek not to fix or change others, especially when they've hurt you. Neither should you find excuses for their behavior or "learn to love them"—however good a sound bite the latter makes. What will serve you most is to create as much space as possible within which to heal, be distracted, and fill your life with new friends, ideas, and adventures.

Forgiveness is only necessary when first there's blame.

Forgiveness is warm. Like a tear on a cheek. Think of that and of me when you stand in the rain. I loved you completely. And you loved me the same. That's all. The rest is confetti. -Nell Crain - The Haunting of Hill House

My simplistic answer to the question "Who am I?" is this: my truest, purest, nonnegotiable identity is the beloved. And in spite of my checkered past, my fabulous flops, my painful history, my deepest flaws, my bonehead screwups, and, yes, even beyond my own beliefs about myself, I am God's beloved. This is my foundational identity and the foundational identity of every human being.

The Creator celebrates broken things as a way to love us. And this, my friend, is also what he invites us to do.

People of the Second Chance hold to the promise that broken things can be made beautiful again.

Second chancers understand our brokenness isn't something to hide but to integrate into our lives. We do not need to be ashamed. No matter what the world says, we are not "less than" for being broken.

People of the Second Chance understand that God's love gets in through our cracks and breaks.