Quotes About Forgiveness

Sometimes I think Pa hates it because the things I remember are nt for me to be forgiven, but for him. And he can't forget or forgive himeself. That's why he never sleeps, and why he drinks so much. He told me once that there are no memories at the bottom of a glass.

undeserved guilt is just another form of indulgent self-pity.

Go without hate, but not without rage. Heal the world.

Two ghosts, briefly rescued from oblivion; a small act of reclamation, a chance to make amends. -Paul Murray, SKIPPY DIES

Honey, Don't go shooting all the dogs 'cause one of them's got fleas

early in sobriety I routinely threw my sobriety at other drivers on the freeway, people who didn't even want it.

No matter what label we give the feeling, we have willingly put ourselves in the victim role, and have given the person or situation that wronged us control over our feelings, our serenity, our emotional sobriety, and, if we are alcoholic, possibly even our physical sobriety. The seeming pleasure of holding a resentment isn't worth all that.

Fox insists that, as long as we harbor a resentment toward any other person, we should not say the Lord's Prayer. We should not ask God to, "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us," because, by doing so, we ask God to feel toward us and to treat us the way we feel toward and treat those we resent.

He talks about the total destructiveness of resentments and the way in which they spiritually chain us to the person we dislike. Finally, he describes the actual process of forgiveness.

From this moment on, it is entirely His. You are completely free of it. It is gone, done, finished, over. It is as if it never happened. Through the Love of God, you and the other person are both now and forever free.

I have also made the decision to believe that you and I and every one of us have been doing the best we could at every moment of every day of our lives up to and including this moment. If we could have done better, we would have done better.

Furthermore, if this is true for me, then it is true for you and for every one of us. All along, we did the best we could under the circumstances at that particular time.

The Big Book says in two places, one of them in italics, that we have ceased fighting anything and anybody.

el olvido no es lo mismo que la reconciliación y la memoria no es lo mismo que la venganza».

Forgiveness has no deadline.

Good mentalizing refers to mental and relational strengths as curiosity, perspective taking, forgiveness, reflective contemplation, a trusting attitude, humility, playfulness , willingness to assume responsibility and accept accountability and being aware of one's impact on others (Bateman and Fonagy 2016

What was inside him would never go away. What had happened would never not have happened.

The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must be banished.

Judging others and being quick to criticize just pollutes your life. Learning how to open your hand is the best thing you can possibly learn.

they shall not teach, each one his fellow citizen and kinsman, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know me, from least to greatest. 12For I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sins no more.

In addition, forgiveness is crucial to deliverance from the Evil One, because a bitter heart gives him a foothold in our lives.

If the soul does not repent, and wipe out its sins by sorrow, the demons almost immediately return and continue to possess it." St. Alphonsus

Each time we sin, the Devil strengthens his grip on us. Through Penance, we loosen that grip and pull free of his control. Not only do we receive forgiveness of past sins; we receive grace to resist temptations to come.

12For I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sins no more.