Quotes About Forgiveness

I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

I regret hurting my wife and my child and abandoning them. I regret the pain I caused them.

I've never heard of the wife looking up the mistress to become friends, but I like it.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

But we're not this one stupid thing we said three years ago, or ten years ago, or even last week. We seem to judge people as if they are.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

I was an absolute maniac, a terrible husband and father.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn't like you. Especially when you don't know what you've done to deserve it.

I'm a terrible husband.

I was born with a terrible temper, but this is the way of expressing myself. I flare up, but it goes quickly, and I don't remember it long.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

I could have been known for something terrible.

Sometimes you just have to write some days off, and I know that's a terrible thing to say, but it's the truth.

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

Forgiveness is a spiritual practice and biblical mandate from the New Testament that many American Christians engage in as a part of their faith.