Quotes About Forgiveness

Original sin is my only refuge, I was born bad and I never have recovered

For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.

I'm not too gone to be healed, am I? I'm not too gone am I?

Regret empties anticipation, flattens dreams, and suffocates hope, because regret is a form of self-punishment. Whereas hindsight helps us learn from the past, regret beats us up with the past. So for one entire day (or go for forty), I invite you to fast regret. Do not feed it. Do not give it space. Let it go: God's mercies are "new every morning

When you don't speak the truth for years at a time, the words left unspoken slowly leak the air out of your connection. Even if, years later, you are ready to say what you couldn't earlier, the moment has passed. The details and circumstances have faded from memory, and yet the emotions linger.

De waarheid is dat William Macfarlane vond dat hij schuldig was aan Alice' dood, ook al kon hij er nog zo weinig aan doen. - Leo

Alice Ramsay. Ik weet nu weer wat er is gebeurd, in elk geval een beetje. Op een of andere manier... was haar dood mijn schuld - ik heb haar dat aangedaan.' Hij liet zijn tranen nu de vrije loop. 'Dat is het enige wat ik weet. Van de rest kan ik me niet veel herinneren. Het is mijn schuld dat dit allemaal is gebeurd.' - Nick

In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault. And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it.

It's not your fault there is evil in the world" Cadvan to Maerad

Well, Hem, all's well that ends well, but it almost ended very badly. Almost in disaster." Hem looked down, and his cheeks flushed. Cadvan patted his shoulder. "I forgive you for almost getting us killed, or worse," he said.

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

The truth is that we are not good people who make mistakes; we are sinful people in need of mercy. Because it requires humility to accept what our hearts are truly like, those same hearts will tend to prefer to be deceived by preachers of self-esteem and self-confidence rather than listen to prophets such as Jeremiah.

Just as Bartimaeus was: by going to Jesus and calling out to Him for mercy, asking for the loving forgiveness and new life that only He can provide. You will never know Jesus Christ as a reality in your life until you know Him as a necessity.

It's never too late for repentance. With God's help we can chart a new course and set our sails in the direction of obedience to God.

She wanted the best for her enemy, rather than hoping for the worst. This is remarkable. How could she do this? Because presumably, in the face of her emptiness and the sadness of being separated from her family, she had turned time and time again to her loving God and His promises.

Spring is the earth forgiving itself.)

Queridos amigos; todos los días oigo decir entre vosotros: "Soy pobre, no puedo hacer caridad"; y veo también que os falta la indulgencia para vuestros semejantes; nada les perdonáis, y os constituís en jueces, a menudo severos, sin preguntaros si estaríais satisfechos de que hicieran otro tanto con vosotros. ¿Acaso la indulgencia no es también caridad? Los que sólo podéis hacer la caridad indulgente, hacedla al menos, pero hacedla con grandeza.

Meu Deus, eu me arrependo, perdoai-me.

Cristo vino y dijo: Volved bien por mal. Dijo más: "No os resistáis al mal que os quieran hacer; "sí os hieren en una mejilla presentadles la otra".

perdonar las ofensas es reconocer que uno se vuelve mejor. Perdonad, pues, amigos míos, a fin de que Dios os perdone, porque sois duros, exigentes, inflexibles, y si además tenéis rigor por una ligera ofensa, ¿cómo queréis que Dios olvide, cuando todos los días tenéis gran necesidad de indulgencia?

Save your anger to fight injustice. Forgive the rest.

why do I make myself miserable over things that years from now no one will even care about? If I knew that, maybe I could be happy.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.