Quotes About Forgiveness

You and Carl and this new baby are all I have left in this world. You don't have to be perfect. I know what you did. I understand why you did it. It's taken me a long time but I finally understand. I just don't need to hear you say it. I can't hear you say it.

They never let you live it down. One little mistake!- Nero

Elie Wiesel, el ganador del Premio Nobel y superviviente de un campo de concentración: «Lo contrario al amor no es el odio; lo contrario es la indiferencia». Las biologías del amor fuerte y del odio fuerte son parecidas en muchos aspectos, tal como veremos.

Here are some words of central importance to this book: aggression, violence, compassion, empathy, sympathy, competition, cooperation, altruism, envy, schadenfreude, spite, forgiveness, reconciliation, revenge, reciprocity, and (why not?) love. Flinging us into definitional quagmires.

Self-forgiveness comes when we realize that if God has forgiven us, we needn't remain angry with ourselves, needn't hate ourselves any longer. God will use it all for good.

There's no hope for a family that quarrels all the time.

I tried to tell her how if you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make a future.

Good-bye, Lois, and I forgive for you everything I did to you.

So I tried to make what amends I could for being what I was...

I tried to tell her how if you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other, and how if you could accept the past you might hope for the future, for only out of the past can you make the future.

Good-bye, Lois, and I forgive you for everything I did to you.

But old Mr. Sandeen, who was the father of one of the dead kids, saw him back in the crowd and while the clods were still bouncing off the coffin lids Mr. Sandeen pushed back to him and grabbed him by the hand and lifted up one arm above his head and said, loud, "Oh, God, I am punished for accepting iniquity and voting against an honest man!

any sinner can find redemption if the yield of his sin is spectacular enough. Our

No puedes declararme culpable de pecados cometidos en sueños.

Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?

My pen shall heal, not hurt.

The ghosts of things that never happened are worse than the ghosts of things that did.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

What care I if it be wild and improbable and lacking in literary art? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new a day with no mistakes in it

Oh, I know I'm a great trial to you, Marilla, said Anne repentantly. I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might.

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge.

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.