Quotes About Forgiveness

We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.

People need to continue talking until they get enough understanding to be able to genuinely leave it behind.

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart...

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

He wanted to do everything over and do it right this time. He wanted to give her the world, but she had already given the world to him.

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around

Try not to take it personally if the mother criticizes you or tells you to stop doing something that you expected to be helpful. Just say, "Sorry," and stop doing it. Don't try to explain why you did it or express frustration with her. She is really saying that labor is so difficult right now that nothing helps. You are the safest person for her to lash out at. Later, she will probably apologize.

I'm sorry, George,' said the features editor, Colin Firth

And then she said, "that's what love is. Still loving someone, in spite of knowing the bad things.

Penny Vincenzi

I'm sorry I laughed...I know it isn't funny for you. It was incredibly stupid of me to laugh. Does it hurt a lot anywhere? 'Not really,' I said. 'Only a bit in your soul?' 'Maybe a bit.' 'Let it sink,' he said. 'Just leave it. You can't use it for anything.

Christ, man, it's 1871, ain't you people ever gonna forget about that slavery stuff?

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;To love, and bear; to hope till Hope createsFrom its own wreck the thing it contemplates;Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent;This, like thy glory, Titan, is to beGood, great and joyous, beautiful and free;This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy power which seems omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed -but it returneth.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past

Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

I didn't have anything against them and they never did anything wrong to me, the way other people have all my life. Maybe they're just the ones who have to pay for it.

When the devil reminds us of our past sins, that is condemnation;

when the Holy Spirit points out our sins, that is conviction, not condemnation.

Guilt and condemnation are meant to destroy us, but conviction is meant to bring us to repentance.

Then my anger shall be aroused against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured." – DEUTERONOMY 31:17

David's passion was turned toward Bathshcba, which resulted in an affair.

Redemption is overrated.

How did you know that what you sought was redemption and not righteous vengeance?