Quotes About Forgiveness

I'd rather be a fool than hard-hearted.

We should get over it.

Don't hate anyone," she had said. "It's quite useless and harms the hater while it does nothing at all to the hated." So

Si tratas de curar la maldad con maldad, sumarás más dolor a tu destino.

salvation consists primarily in his beginning to sorrow earnestly over himself!

hay posibilidad del bien incluso en el último instante, y que hay por tanto esperanza todavía incluso para el más perdido.

Raskain rangaistus on nimenomaan muisto.

repentance and remorse. The one calls us forward.

Self-reflection is always an early step to healing, and forgiveness is the soul's sweetest healing.

When we continually focus on the wrongs other members of the family or broader society have inflicted upon us, the unfairness, the pain, the humiliation of it all can make it so difficult to move forward into compassion. Forgiveness is rarely about others. We forgive for our own spiritual welfare.

But repeating the guilt, living in the pain, in the past—it doesn't work. It denies time. It denies life.

What are you doing here? she asked. You forgot something when you left Halstead Hall, he said hoarsely. What? Her heart lept into her throat as he strode purposefully toward her. Me.

Festering with regret changes not one thing.

Jesus told them, God is like the dad who couldn't stop loving his boy, And people are like the son who said, Does my dad really want me to be happy? Jesus told people this story to show them what God is like. And to show people what they are like. So they could know, however far they ran, however well they hid, however lost they were- it wouldn't matter. Because God's children could never run to far, or be too lost, for God to find them.

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

Sometimes it's just over and you can't make it all right. Justification by works: an overrated idea.

His mother had survived decades of marriage to his angry, disappointed, alcoholic father by developing what she called a "forgettery" instead of a memory. She woke up every day and forgot the day before. He, too, seemed to lack a memory for trouble, and woke up remembering only what he yearned for. But he did not act upon his yearning. She had left for America and that was for the best.

No, sir. A sin. A suchmuch thing.

And the most gladdening thing was the discovery that even the unforgivable crime of being one's father could be forgiven, after all, in the end.

Anyone in the vicinity of a dying man was utterly at his mercy. Punches delivered from a deathbed left bruises that never faded.

Güzellik de bir tür kaderdir, güzellik güzellikle konuÅŸur, fark?na var?r ve onaylar, her konuda mazur görülebileceÄŸine inan?r...

Ahmed Sinai never forgave his son for breaking his toe. Even after the splint was removed, a tiny limp remained. My father leaned over my crib and said, "So, my son: you're starting as you mean to go on. Already you've started bashing your poor old father!" In my opinion, this was only half a joke.

Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics—by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck. Is