Quotes About Forgiveness

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don't matter anymore.

Some hurts can never be mended" he said. "No matter how much time passes. They tattoo themselves on our souls

Say Sorry is not a Shame but a Solution

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred...

qué nos hace creer que otro ser humano puede arreglarnos o absolvernos de nuestros actos negativos, nuestros errores y nuestros defectos de carácter?

Thus did the unkind step-mother humble herself and ask forgiveness of the girl she had so wronged.

How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough.

The antonym of "forgetting" is not "remembering", but justice .

If forgive me would make up for everything then we wouldn't need hell!

Will you love your brothers or sisters likewise, when they have committed a sin that cannot be atoned for without the shedding of their blood? Will you love that man or woman well enough to shed their blood?

There are sins that men commit for which they cannot receive forgiveness in this world, or in that which is to come, and if they had their eyes open to see their true condition, they would be perfectly willing to have their blood spilt upon the ground, that the smoke thereof might ascend to heaven as an offering for their sins, and the smoking incense would atone for their sins, whereas, if such is not the case, they will stick to them and remain upon them in the spirit world.

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

I don't see the Father pouring out his wrath on the Son. I see the human race pouring out their wrath on the Son. So I see the only hope for the entire cosmos is what the Son chooses to accept, crawling upon the instrument of our greatest wrath. He met us at the deepest, darkest place.

Zašto mi je oprostila? Je li mogla postojati ve?a uvreda od takve velikodušnosti? Ah, možda bi, govorio sam si, moja bol mogla zacijeliti kad bi me ona barem još jednom jasno uvrijedila.

always forgive and be patient.

There were pacifists in the past, such as the early Christians, but in the rare cases that they gained power, they tended to forget about their requirement to 'turn the other cheek'.)

Heaven and hell too ceased to be real places somewhere above the clouds and below the volcanoes, and were instead interpreted as internal mental states. You experience hell every time you ignite the fires of anger and hatred within your heart; and you enjoy heavenly bliss every time you forgive your enemies, repent your own misdeeds and share your wealth with the poor.

Rocket: Have you ever wanted to just take something back? You know, something you said, something you did? Baby Doll: All the time.