Quotes About Forgiveness

Je hasarde une explication : écrire c'est le dernier recours quand on a trahi.

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

je savais que je portais le pardon.

Pray you now forget, and forgive: I am old and foolish

Least said, soonest mended," Toby quipped, quoting a saying Jess often used.

I like to live my life now with peace, patience, serenity, forgiveness, gratitude and acceptance of myself.xx Jean

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

People often vented their rage on those who were the victims of their neglect because they were in truth blaming themselves.

Plus l'offenseur m'est cher, plus je ressens l'injure.

Grâces au ciel, mes mains ne sont point criminelles. Plût aux dieux que mon cÅ"ur fût innocent comme elles!

She made no comment, however—possibly on the principle that once the horse had bolted there was not very much to be gained from closing the stable door—merely placed the fresh bundle on top of his bedside cupboard.

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless trust and hope. The response to prejudice and hatred is forgiveness. To work for community is to work for humanity. To work for peace is to work for a true political solution; it is to work for the Kingdom of God. It is to work to enable every one to live and taste the secret joys of the human person united to the eternal.

Children can then quickly discover that there is such a thing called truth; that they are not living in a chaotic world that is hypocritical, filled with only lies and pretense. Parents who admit to their children that they have been unjustly angry and ask for forgiveness are naming something: they are admitting that they are not perfect. Words and life can come together: the word can indeed become flesh.

Prayer is a meeting which nourishes our hearts. It is presence and communion. The secret of our being is in this kiss of God by which we know we are loved and forgiven. In our deepest selves, below the levels of action and understanding, there is a vulnerable heart, a child who loves but is afraid to love. Silent prayer nourishes this deep place.

Community as forgiveness . . . Too many people come into community to find something, to belong to a dynamic group, to discover a life which approaches the ideal. If we come into community without knowing that the reason we come is to learn to forgive and be forgiven seven times seventy-seven times, we will soon be disappointed.

Flowing from this union, source of a plenitude of joy, the love of the couple reveals itself through the daily acceptance of the limits and faults of each other and in mutual openness. It is this acceptance in and through gentleness, kindness, forgiveness, confidence and the desire to see shining in the other the warm light of the Spirit of God that becomes the great sign of the merciful love of God for man and His incessant forgiveness.

To forgive is a gift of God that permits us to let go of our past hurts.

Please forgive me for being impertinent and ungrateful. I was badly brought up.

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt or a service.

Like her father, Bess never forgot a hurt of a service.

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

for every wickedness, there is an equal and opposite possibility of redemption. In any