Quotes About Forgiveness

Things without all remedyShould be without regard: what's done is done.

Wormwood, wormwood.

I am a manMore sinn'd against than sinning.

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.

Upon such sacrifices, my Cordelia,The gods themselves throw incense.

Must I hold a candle to my shames?

Love that comes too late,Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried.

Cursed be my tribe,If I forgive him!

And my ending is despair,Unless I be reliev'd by prayer,Which pierces so that it assaultsMercy itself and frees all faults.

Nymph, in thy orisonsBe all my sins remember'd.

Men ne'er spend their fury on a child.

If we shadows have offended,Think but this, and all is mended,That you have but slumber'd hereWhile these visions did appear.

Such an injury would vex a very saint.

The day will come that thou shalt wish for meTo help thee curse this pois'nous bunch-back'd toad.

If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,Become them with one half so good a graceAs mercy does.

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.

O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder.

Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

The quality of mercy is not strained It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.

What's done can't be undone.

She's still your mother." Meaning no matter what she's done, how much you don't understand her, you will treat her with respect. She's still your mother.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.