Quotes About Forgiveness

I screwed up," I said. "I'm sorry." "You got the truck," Corey said. "Seems like it worked to me." "Yes, please make her stop," Sam called from the truck. "She's been apologizing since we got away and it's really getting on my nerves.

Guilt comes back to haunt us in the weirdest ways.

You have to salvage what you can, even if you're the one who buried it in the first place.

So tell me about this prison thing. What did you do? Should I be afraid of you?" "Probably not," Will says. "It doesn't do much good to be afraid of things.

A man hates the person he has wronged, paradoxically. I think it's because the victim is a perpetual reminder that he behaved shamefully.

Mam kissed Ethel and said: "I'm glad to see you settled at last, anyway," That word ANYWAY carried a lot of baggage, Ethel thought. It meant: "Congratulations, even though you're a fallen woman, and you've got an illegitmate child whose father no one knows, and you're marrying a Jew, and living in London, which is the same as Sodom and Gomorrah." But Ethel accepted Mam's qualified blessing and vowed never to say such things to her own child.

You didn't ask for a priest." "Whether I've been good or bad, I don't think God will be fooled by a last-minute change of heart.

Don't be sorry for that. Be sorry that you made so happy. That's what hurts, woman. That you made me so happy.

I may yet go through anguish in hell for my sin. But if I had to live that time again I would do the same, to end Margery's ordeal. I preferred to suffer myself than to know that her agony continued. Her well-being was more important to me than my own. I have learned, during the course of a long life, that that is the meaning of love.

What should we do?" "If you want to live, you should go to church, confess your sins, pray, and lead a better life.

An apology is designed to make the offender feel okay so that he can do it again. Don't be sorry." Kincaid tried to gather the shreds

there's more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people. p890

If God could not forgive lascivious priests, there would be very few clergy in heaven.

We never forgive those we've wronged.

It pleased Aliena that they were all together: she and Jack and their children, and Jack's mother, and Aliena's brother, and Martha. It was quite like an ordinary family, and Aliena could almost forget that her father had died in a dungeon, and she was legally married to Jack's stepbrother, and Ellen was an outlaw, and— She shook her head. It was no use pretending this was a normal family.

la piedad de sus enemigos era la peor de las humillaciones.

way to the quarry and picked out a stone he liked. He had brought it back on a borrowed pony two days later. But people forgave him his transgressions, partly because he was a truly exceptional stonecarver, and partly because he was so likeable – a trait he definitely had not inherited from his mother, in Philip's opinion. Philip had given some thought to what Jack would

Jesús le dijo: Tampoco yo te condeno; vete, y no peques más».

I'm not normally a forgiving man. He turned his icy gaze on William again for a moment, then looked back at Father. But I don't bear a grudge when it's against my interest.

He had to learn that those who treated him in a hostile way did so out of weakness. He saw the hostility and reacted angrily, instead of seeing the weakness and givin reassurance

Nuestra fe habla de redención y piedad, no de guardarse las cosas dentro y castigar a los demás.

A man who loses a battle with his king may be forgiven, but a man who wins such a battle is doomed.

Fathers were supposed to be invulnerable - but that attitude was childish, he now saw. Irritatingly, he might have to change his outlook. He could no longer be merely indignant and resentful. He was not the only sufferer. Dad had hurt him, but he had hurt Dad as well, and they were both responsible. Feeling responsible was not as comfortable as feeling outraged.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.