Quotes About Forgiveness

Before, I trusted too much and was naive. Now I realize that even the best people can't always get it right and end up acting out. We are all human and anyone is capable of doing what Anais did, even me.

forgiving doesn't mean giving the other a free pass. It's a gift one gives oneself.

Did we really have to go through an affair just to be able to be truly honest with each other?" I hear this often and share their regret. But here's one of the unspoken truths about relationships: for many couples, nothing less extreme is powerful enough to get the partners' attention and to shake up a stale system.

Only when the betrayed partner feels emotionally met will he or she be able to listen to explanations without hearing them as justifications.

As Maria Popova writes, "The dance of anger and forgiveness, performed to the uncontrollable rhythm of trust, is perhaps the most difficult in human life, as well as one of the oldest.

Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself.

Wanneer een S.S.-man me dood zou trappen, dan zou ik nog opkijken naar z'n gezicht en me met angstige verbazing en menselijke belangstelling afragen: Mijn God kerel, wat is er met jou allemaal voor verschrikkelijks in je leven gebeurd, dat je tot zùlke dingen komt?

I know that those who hate have good reason to do so. But why should we always have to choose the cheapest and easiest way? It has been brought home forcibly to me here how every atom of hatred added to the world makes it an even more inhospitable place.

Memory lived not in initial possession but in the freed hands, pardoned and freed, and in the heart that can empty but fill again, in the patterns restored by dreams.

Megérteni annyi, mint megbocsátani.

An apology is also an admission of guilt

Every good thing we know would be lost to darkness, all unremembered, if each had not been preserved for us by some sinner with a pen.

Our Father which art in Hendon Harrow be thy name Thy Kingston come, Thy Wimbledon, In Erith as it is in Hendon. Give us this day our Leatherhead And forgive us our bypasses As we forgive those who bypass against us. Lead us not into Thames Ditton But deliver us from Ewell For thine is the Kingston, the Purley and Crawley For Esher and Esher, Crouch End.791

Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit.

BE GRATEFUL, FORGIVE PEOPLE, LOVE MORE, BLAME LESS AND BELIEVE THINGS WILL WORK OUT!

ACCEPT – yourself, others and your current situation FORGIVE – yourself and others BE GRATEFUL LIVE IN THE MOMENT FEEL YOUR GOALS ALREADY ACHIEVED REPLACE FEAR WITH LOVE AND KINDNESS BE HAPPY.

Dwelling on the sins of the past won't help us stop the evils of the present.

This man accepted his loss a long time ago, now he's just trying to make sure it's okay to put it all to rest.

I understand guilt. I know pain. The only antidote I have is brutal honesty.

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

If one found ways to explain her husband's infidelity or disrespect for her, all the others would give her a pass, knowing full well they were either in similar circumstances or anticipating that they would soon be.

we may show mercy Ã¢â'¬â€œ we shall ask for none.

One of the pieces of advice that Churchill had given Georges Clemenceau during the Great War had been 'to forget old quarrels … In England we … make many muddles, but we always keep more or less together.

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.