Quotes About Forgiveness

Not the kind of fights you can't take back

Tekneye dolan deniz suyu gibi, mesafe kendini yava? yava? hissettirmisti; biz fark?na varmadan. Iliskimizi kurtarm??t?k ama biz karde?tik. Karde?ler her zaman birbirlerine dönmenin bir yolunu bulurlard?.

If they don't talk now, the scar will only harden over time, it will calcify, and then they'll be like strangers who never loved each other, which is the saddest thought of all.

I have to say it because it's true and because I'll regret it if I don't. It's about you. It's about not having regrets later. Don't hurt yourself just to spite him.

We decided to leave the past in the past. The future was where we were headed.

I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now that too in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.

Jeremiah was crying now too. Good, I thought. Hurt like you've hurt me.

Te libero. Te echo de mi corazón. Porque si no lo hago ahora, nunca lo haré.

Daddy thinks that Mama is everything a woman should be: beautiful, clever, charming. Beauty has a way of making the bad things tolerable. When Mama tilts her green eyes at you, it's hard to remember why you were mad in the first place.

I felt like bad for snapping at him.

There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.

Hay una palabra coreana que me enseñó mi abuela. Se llama jung. Es un vínculo entre dos personas que no puede cortarse, incluso cuando el amor se convierte en odio. Sigues conservando esos antiguos sentimientos por esa persona; no puedes librarte de ellos por completo; siempre guardarás un poco de ternura en tu corazón por esa persona.

I know we'll never be friends again, and I've made my peace with it.

I had so much respect for the fact that Father Andrew saw his own sins in my actions. I wished all adults were like Father Andrew.

I knew he was a prick, but a part of me wanted to hear what he'd say, to hear him say how sorry he really was that he'd screwed up. I wanted groveling for forgiveness and pledges of undying love. As dumb as I knew it was, I wanted him to fight for me, to prove that I hadn't made a mistake by believing in him. Or us.

A few days later, I yelled at him for losing his new lunch box, and he turned to me and said, Are you sure you're my mother? Sometimes you don't seem like a good enough person. He was just a kid, so I let it go. And now, years later, I probably only think of it, I don't know, once or twice a day.

What can it be, do you think? A hidden nerve that's given way? Or something we have failed in or sinned against in ourselves, perhaps—who knows? A soul is such a fragile thing, and no one knows how far the soul extends in a human being. We ought to be good to ourselves—

Pain will leave you, when you let go

But your ability to forgive is worthless if you cannot turn it upon yourself. If you do not, the darkness you seek to defeat will eat you from the inside.

No sin is small.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Look with great forgiveness upon the weakness of others.

It's not our ability to get forgiveness that saves us. It's out ability to grant forgiveness

nothing is so displeasing to God as an impenitent heart. Impenitence is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.