Quotes About Forgiveness

In the great litterbox of relationships, shit happens.

Family, Love. Forgiveness. Those were powerful things.

Love. Forgiveness. Commitment. Faith. Hope. They are simple things with yes or no answers. You love or you don't. You believe or you don't. You forgive or you don't.

I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." – Oscar Wilde

I'll always be damaged in a way. I had hoped that I could completely heal those cracks, but I'm starting to think the real trick is learning to live a full life in spite of them. Cracked people are everywhere, and so I can forgive myself for being overly anxious or easily frightened. But I will no longer allow myself to be swallowed by my past. I insist on having the happiest life I can muster, and I am in control of that now.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. —RARLPH WALDO EMERSON

And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?

C'è chi colleziona francobolli, o scatole di fiammiferi» mi ha detto una volta. «Tu collezioni rancori».

One simple apology is enough. Get up and don't do it again

The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Reminisce about it, but don't live in it. Learn from it, but don't punish yourself about it or continually regret it. Don't get stuck in it.

An apology is a gift that's worth more than it costs.

Leave the bad stuff in the past and concentrate on being happy now. If I can.

Dios castiga al pecador no en la medida de Su propia infinitud, sino en la medida de la fragilidad del pecador.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.

Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what's in a person's heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and to be close to God. I'm not perfect. I know that I still have things to work out, and I'm working on them. There are certain things I have done that I am not proud of, especially when they caused pain to others. I ask God for forgiveness.

Think well of all, be patient with all, and try to find the good in all.