Quotes About Forgiveness

Quienes dañan a los demás, silenciosamente, se detestan a sí mismos

don't let the pain of an imperfect past hinder the glory of your fabulous future

Then ask yourself this question: 'What would I do today if today was my last?

No matter where you are on the pathway of your life, please don't let the pain of an imperfect past hinder the glory of your fabulous future.

No matter where you are on the pathway of your life, please don't let the pain of an imperfect past hinder the glory of your fabulous future. You are so much more powerful than you may currently understand.

No matter where you are on the pathway of your life, please don't let the pain of an imperfect past hinder the glory of your fabulous future. You are so much more powerful than you may currently understand. Splendid victories—and outright blessings—are coming your way.

You tell me, Dex, what kind of a bullshit god doesn't care what you did or who you hurt as long as you say you're sorry? Forgiveness

I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows.

Aren't you getting tired of people hating one another? What do they think they get out of it?

Too-Soon Apology. Whenever one character seems to have died, and his best friend arrives just

have also learned that a goodbye is an opportunity for kindness, for forgiveness, for intimacy, and ultimately for love and a deepening acceptance of life as it is instead of what it was or what we may have wanted it to be.

It is to overlook the culture that has focused, down the centuries, on the business of repentance.

If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.

What man who has lived for more than a score of years desires justice, warrior? For my part, I find mercy infinitely more attractive. Give me a forgiving deity any day.

It is said that the dead forget the dead in the house of Hades, Cassandra, but I hoped it was not so.

You forgive me?" he said. "You, who left me in that tower, who put a knife into my side? Thank you, sister. It is very kind of you to forgive me, but excuse me if I decline.

He thought America's character would be defined by how it treated its vanquished enemies, and he wanted to graduate from bitter wartime grievances to the forgiving posture of peace.

It was probably at this point that a pregnant Eliza first smiled and shook hands with her husband's future executioner.

Mr. Monroe, if you have come to tell me that you repent, that you are sorry, very sorry, for the misrepresentations and the slanders and the stories you circulated against my dear husband, if you have come to say this, I understand it. But otherwise, no lapse of time, no nearness to the grave, makes any difference.

While Rockefeller and Gates were irked by the Merritts' ingratitude, they were not entirely blameless.

Hatred is so much easier than reconciliation; no sacrifices or compromises are required.

If my faults deserve punishment, my youth at least, and my imprudence were worthy of excuse

Michael didn't make it all the way to the end of the assembly line. A couple of things didn't get bolted on. I try not to blame the mother. But she wasn't well. She died less than ten years later.

Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.