Quotes About Forgiveness

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession

Honesty can siphon off a few regrets and resentments if you tap in to it. Let that sink in.

Never hurt the heart that loves you Because The same heart might never learn to love you again

Like serial killers and three of the worst men I ever dated, I never really had a grasp on what I was supposed to feel sorry about. Week after week, I filled the confessional with lies. I yelled at my teacher. I stole my best friend's favorite toy. I kicked a dog. I punched my brother in the nuts.

It slowly dawned on me: if I could lie and be quickly forgiven, there was nothing to stop me from actually doing some of the stuff I was making up. Catholicism flipped a switch and turned me on to a life of crime.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.

Time is short. Don't waste it beating yourself up.

Previous success in any field invites high expectations and scrutiny the next time around. People are less forgiving when a winner falters than they are when an up-and-comer stumbles. But a mark of a champion is to welcome scrutiny, persevere, perform beyond expectations, and provide an exceptional product—for which forgiveness is not necessary.

I was her world, yes, and I was at that point we all reach where I was denying she was mine. I'd never quiet forgive myself for that.

Unconditional Love also requires forgiveness. Recall that whatever you fail to forgive, you tie to yourself with an invisible chain through the attracting power of Love. If you are unable to unconditionally love another because of your negative emotions about their actions, you tie yourself to those negative emotions.

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

Aun así, soy de los que opinan que nunca es demasiado tarde para volver a ese sitio donde nos desviamos y tomar la decisión correcta. Soy de la idea que nunca es demasiado tarde.

Hay quienes ya en su noviazgo produjeron recuerdos para olvidar, poderosos en eso de dejar marcas que dolerán por muchos años después.

Que no puedo cambiar lo que pasó, pero sí hacer que no se

la memoria esconde las cartas perdedoras, selecciona, tiene piedad.

Les blessures dont on a honte ne se guérissent pas.

The wounds we are ashamed of never heal.

Before we even understand what repentance is, we're instructed4 to name, out loud, the harm that we have caused.

Another human being's suffering is not magically erased because the person who caused it says that they didn't mean to do it.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

It had been a long time, perhaps years, since she had heard a man apologize

You don't believe in evil," she said slowly. "For you everything is just a misunderstanding.

Such faults, you must work to overcome in yourselves....But treasure them in each other, if you can. These failings, they're part of the people we love. They make us human, and the more they are loved, the more you look on them with compassion and patience, the less they nip at your heels and make problems in your life together.