Quotes About Forgiveness

Life's too short to live in the past, Amelia. Let him have his ghosts." *

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Apologize: To lay the foundation for a future offence.

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to." (page 8)

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,'Aubrey. I will avenge this scar and every scar you have put into my heart. -Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)

As the year passed, the little boy gradually forgot his grief in the busy, happy life of the Bavran household.

Our greatest salvation comes when we learn to let go and forgive the people in our past.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.

After death there is either nothing or forgiveness.

So, where does it come from, the fury? A thousand indignities, a thousand wrongs, like tiny knife wounds, shredding a person's humanity. In time only the tattered remnants are left. And in the end they ask themselves — what good is this to me? And they throw the last of it away.

Heterophemize (v.) To say something different from what you mean to say. Think back on all the things you've said in life that you truly wish you hadn't. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just claim afterward that you had been heterophemizing, and be instantly forgiven? Homodoxian

There are people you always love, no matter what they have done to you, no matter what you have done to them.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

Get rid of imagined guilt. You did the best you could at the time, all things considered. If you made mistakes, learn to accept that we are all imperfect. Only hindsight is 20-20. If you are convinced that you have real guilt, consider professional or spiritual counseling (with a competent and trustworthy counselor). If you believe in God a pastor can help you believe also in God's forgiveness.

If the world could know that we don't have to put people in concentration camps and annihilate people just because we're angry with them. And the anger probably goes back for centuries. If we could just know that.

Fred Rogers' spiritual answer to how we "treat bad people" is much more far-reaching than the psychology behind sublimation

There is one thing that evil cannot stand, and that's forgiveness.

Know this: You should judge every person by his merits. Even someone who seems completely wicked, you must search and find that little speck of good, for in that place, he is not wicked. By this you will raise him up, and help him return to God. And you must also do this for yourself, finding your own good points, one after the other, and raising yourself up. This is how melodies are made, note after note. REBBE NACHMAN OF BRESLOV

He appreciated and represented the intricacies of life and showed an appreciation for complex and conflicting feelings. He wasn't naïve; he knew that seeing the best in ourselves so that we can see the best in our neighbor—an act that translates into harmonious relationships—is only possible because of forgiveness.

Standing firm is great, kiddo, but so is admitting you made a mistake and fixing it.

People hurt each other all the time just by being. What matters is that when you hurt someone, you do what you can to make it right.