Quotes About Forgiveness

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

God is compassion.

I don't go down the road of condemning.

I'm Catholic, I'm conditioned to confess.

There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.

It's not always enjoyable to go back and look at things in your life. Things that you're not proud of, you definitely don't want to confront; dark times that you've already gotten over.

If I have a connection with someone, I'd like to think that they'd be able to respect that connection enough and respect themselves enough to not care about my past - that they would want to see what happens between us.

People mess up all the time. Michael Vick, he made some mistakes. He surrounded himself around the wrong people. And you've got to be careful with that. But he's redeemed himself and came back.

I spend a lot of time unpacking the pain surrounding my addiction - both my own and the pain I caused other people.

When you're placed in a world where survival is the main focus, a lot of that other stuff, like wrongdoings in the past, become obsolete. You have to focus on the here and now.

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

All the best novels are about one thing: how we go on. The characters must survive the fallout of their own cowardice, folly, denial or misguided passion. They squander what matters most, and still they pick up the pieces.

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

I grew up in a household with my mother, who was a Holocaust survivor. I very much understand the mentality that you cannot live in the past. You can't spend your entire life, or even portions of it, looking back and dwelling on things that have already happened. You have to move forward.

I'm always suspicious of people who repent of other people's sins.

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

I learned that love is a much more sustainable energy to draw on than hate.

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

If I had stayed there, swallowed my pride, been able to save Orlando all over again, which is what they were trying to get me to do there, I'd be O.K. now.

I don't think previously strong relationships can remain strong after dispute by just sweeping the offensive stuff under the carpet, or by saying a puny sorry, or 'oh, that's all over now.' It doesn't work like that for me.

People don't remember. Revenge is sweet.

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

I love my son. He's a great soul. He's a sweet person, but events that have happened to him in his life, some of his own making - as a parent ,you really can't take full responsibility for the destruction that can happen to a child.