Quotes About Forgiveness

Some people may opt out. Their child turns out to be whatever it is that they find impossible to face—for some, the wrong religion; for some, the wrong sexuality; for some, a drug addict. They close the door. Click. Like in mafia movies: "I have no son. He is dead to me." I have a son and he will never be dead to me.

Nic is writing 'I am sorry', and I want to cry. No, I think, don't let him in again. No don't let him in again. No don't let him in again.

Don't confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them.

Thomas Lynch showed me that it is possible to love a child who is lost, possibly forever.

I can try to forgive myself, whether or not she forgives me, because I was a child, but some things you just live with because you cannot go backward.

Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

I am no minister of malice," he said, "I would not repel the repentant, but . . . may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I forget the difference between the parties to that . . . bloody conflict. . . . I may say if this war is to be forgotten, I ask in the name of all things sacred what shall men remember?

No, he walks funny because he only has one leg." "His leg fell off because he ate my fudge?!" Raj looked to the heavens again and put his hands together in prayer. "Lord, please have mercy on my soul! I am not a bad man. I just use best-before dates as a very rough guide, rounding them up to the nearest decade!

Hello, Raj," said Zoe sheepishly. "I don't have any money again today I am afraid." "Not a penny?" "Nothing. Sorry.

Grace and mercy are God's love language to mankind.

It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

Oh, hell," Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. "I really blew it, didn't I?" "Don't be silly," Berry scolded. "It's just your first lovers' spat. You accused of him of being an inhuman fiend, and he got a little miffed. No big deal.

after all, the identity of the one who must forgive is actually founded on the very fact of having been wounded.

To forgive is to put oneself in a larger gravitational field of experience than the one that first seemed to hurt us. We reimagine ourselves in the light of our maturity and we reimagine the past in the light of our new identity; we allow ourselves to be gifted by a story larger than the story that first hurt us and left us bereft.

all friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness.

If forgiveness comes through understanding, and if understanding is just a matter of time and application then we might as well begin forgiving right at the beginning of any drama rather than put ourselves through the full cycle of festering, incapacitation, reluctant healing and eventual blessing.

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

Love. Forgive. As you forgive, you will be forgiven.

Forgive me for not being willing to hear your call until now, dear Lord. But I am here and I am ready. Direct me to where I should next go. Reveal to me how I should next serve you. Grant me the wisdom and the strength to trust you in all things. Wherever you lead. Whatever task you set. Help me, Lord.

You have just convinced me the faith you have found is what I need. What I have longed for. There is nothing further you could have said that would have convinced me. But this? This need to forgive. That is real, Julia. Genuine. I know it cannot come from within – except by the help of your God. Would you tell me how I might receive this ability to forgive from the God you have claimed as your own?

I'm not afraid of her," she said. "That's just the way old women are. I'm not afraid of anybody. I feel sorry for them, coming to me someday begging me to forgive 'em because they didn't realize I was going to turn out so rich and famous.

The only exercise I get is swimming through the ashes of bridges I have burned

Repentance is the grace that Yahweh has granted first to His people otherwise punishment will follow.