Quotes About Forgiveness

Who will not mercy unto others show,How can he mercy ever hope to have?

a guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul. Therefore, an age without a sense of sin, in which people are not even sorry for not being sorry for their sins, is in a serious predicament. Likewise an age with a Christianity so eager to forgive that it denies the need for forgiveness. For such an age, therefore, Lent can scarcely be too long!

Let us forget such words, and all they mean, as Hatred, Bitterness and Rancor, Greed, Intolerance, Bigotry. Let us renew our faith and pledge to Man, his right to be Himself, and free.

GENNARO 'A sta guerra ccà se torna buone… Ca nun se vo' fa' male a nisciuno…»

Parece que la quiero, Ofelia. Mil perdones, pero me

Go thou my incense upward from this hearth And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.

Sicilians never forget and they never forgive. This is a truth you must always keep in mind.

Hic est enim calix Sanguinis mei, novi et aeterni testamenti: mysterium fidei: qui pro vobis et pro multis effundetur in remissionem peccatorum [For this is the chalice of My Blood, of the new and eternal covenant; the mystery of faith; which shall be shed for you and for many unto the forgiveness of sins].

Ye who do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbors, and intend to lead a new life.

The Scripture moveth us, in sundry places, to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness.

In Adam's fallWe sinned all.

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, Which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, By thought, word, and deed, Against thy Divine Majesty, Provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, And are heartily sorry for these our misdoings; The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; The burden of them is intolerable.

For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.

Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job.

But if you love him you'll forgive himEven though he's hard to understand.And if you love him, oh be proud of him'Cause after all he's just a man.

We have erred, and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep.

Never cry over spilt milk. It could've been whiskey.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Peter deniedHis Lord, and cried.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

Kyrie eleison [Lord, have mercy on us].