Quotes About Forgiveness

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

Ted Valentine got up from his chair and walked over to me. He stuck out his hand and said, "I'm horribly sorry.

God has decreed it so, that where tenderness of heart is, there mercy shall follow...

The heroic deeds of those great worthies do not comfort the church so much as their falls and bruises do.

True love is carried to the person; It is adulterous love, to love the thing, or the gift more than the person, St. Paul loved the person of Christ, because he felt sweet experience that Christ loved him; his love was but a reflection of Christ's love first, he loved to see Christ, to embrace him, and enjoy him, that had done so much and suffered so much for his soul, that had forgiven him so many sins

He died that he might heal our souls with a plaster of his own blood, and by that death save us, which we were the procurers of ourselves, by our own sins.

Oh, but is it possible', thinks the misgiving heart, `that so holy a God should accept such a prayer?' Yes, he will accept that which is his own, and pardon that which is ours.

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recently we have had our difficulties and there are many things I want to ask you.

Here is the part where everyone was happy all the time and we were all forgiven, even though we didn't deserve it.

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

This is a story of loops, at least one. I stepped off the loop. I spent time listening, testing realms. I snapped a twig in my head and struck out. You know what it's like to be alone: gimlets and vermicide. You know what it's like to be alive, so forgiveness.

Dear So-and-So, I'm sorry I couldn't come to your party. Dear So-and-So, I'm sorry I came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing.

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven

Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it? Here is the river, and here is the box, and here are the monsters we put in the box to test our strength against. Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here's the desire to put it inside us, and then the question behind every question: What happens next?

Dear Forgiveness, I saved a plate for you. Quit milling around the yard and come inside.

Hello darling, sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known.

Even after emerging from prison and becoming South Africa's first democratically elected president, he continued

If you want to, you can let go of any feelings of resentment, of regret, of anger. You can accept that you are a fabulous human being because of all the bad things that have happened to you, not in spite of them. What is done is done, and you need to just get on with your life.

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

I dreamt the past was never past redeeming:But whether this was false or honest dreamingI beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead.