Quotes About Forgiveness

Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

I don't hate you. I hate what you've done and what it led to.

we all have secrets. We've all done things of which we're ashamed.

Here it seemed hope and the possibility of redemption abounded. It made Jen feel like punching someone.

That was why he hated Duncan. Not because he was a bully but because he'd forced Perez to see him as one. Because when he was fourteen, he'd been Perez's best friend.

Bravely going out into the world and trying, yet still deep down believing you're ruled by your past circumstances, is like forgiving someone but still hoping they sit in something wet.

'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?

It's human nature for everyone to say 'what if,' but I try to snap out of it as quickly as I can because I'm never going to be able to go back and change what has happened.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I'm not too interested in talking about the past. It doesn't do us any good whatsoever.

I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.

I'm not in favor of any amnesty whatsoever.

There is no bad blood between us whatsoever. I owe a lot to AZ.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.

Get married wherever you like, make accommodations for the people you love so they can attend, and forget about the people who can't.

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we're able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're perfect, because every once in a while everyone stumbles. Living by faith is about when you do mess up, getting back up, brushing yourself off, and keep trying to improve where you mess up or where you have temptation.