Quotes About Forgiveness

News slipped out and the world didn't explode and eventually I could count on passing out. I had a headache in the morning and I always threw up, but Jamie, and everyone, it seemed, liked me when I was drunk. The added bonus: I often didn't remember much.

It was in these moments, I knew, that my father loved my mother most. When my mother was broken and helpless, when her hard shell was stripped away and her spite and brittleness couldn't serve her. It was a sad dance of two people who were starving to death in each other's arms. Their marriage an X that forever joined murderer to victim.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----"The Gospel According to Shug

Hard to be Christ too, say Shug. But he manage. Remember that. Thou Shalt Not Kill, He said. And probably wanted to add on to that, Starting with me. He knowed the fools he was dealing with.

Who is it that most needs forgiving? Who is it that feels so much pain? Who is it that would really like to fly Far far away? Who is that can return Free and gentle Like the rain? It is the Self, my love, My adored one, It is the Self That even now It is running for its Life Running to its life Into the arms Of death.

Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail.

Try not to hold her fears against her. At the end she understood, and believed. And forgave-whatever there was to forgive.

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful and lowdown.

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

Repelled by cruelty let us ban it from our hearts.

What make him pull through? I ast Oh, she say, Harpo made him send you the rest of your sister's letters. Right after that he start to improve. You know meanness kill, she say.

The dead are required to finish two tasks before all is over with them: one is to guide back to the path someone you left behind who is lost, because of your folly; the other is to host a ceremony so that you and others you have hurt may face eternity reconciled and complete.

If you know your heart sorry, I say, that mean it not quite as spoilt as you think.

unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

Although I'm good at enumerating my father's flaws, it's hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he's dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than for mothers.

Once words have been raged at someone, they can't be taken back.

Life goes on, you know, and there are compensations to be found. We cannot keep harking back to the past.

It's best to keep one's resentment to oneself.

Love is only a recognition of our own guilt and imperfection, and a supplication for forgiveness to the perfect beloved. This is why we love those who are more beautiful than ourselves, why we fear them, and why we must be unhappy lovers.

Holy time in eternity holy eternity in time holy the clocks in space holy the fourth dimension holy the fifth International holy the Angel in Moloch! Holy the sea holy the desert holy the railroad holy the locomotive holy the visions holy the hallucinations holy the miracles holy the eyeball holy the abyss! Holy forgiveness! mercy! charity! faith! Holy! Ours! bodies! suffering! magnanimity! Holy the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul!

We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

You can't go back. You can't have what was stolen. Just forget...

Hatred bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.