Quotes About Forgiveness

An apology is a good way to have the last word.

And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.

I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.

Love someone who doesn't deserve it.

Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much.

They crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Hanlon's RazorNever attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Errare humanum est [To err is human].

And it seems to me, Miss O'Breen, that to forswear mercy is to forswear humanity. If to destroy evil we take up its very weapons, we shall learn in time that all we have destroyed is the best in ourselves. [Jonadab Evans]

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

I lack the Lord's own gentleness of heart, for I see deliberate malice where he sees ignorance and weakness.

O HAPPY FAULT! The Jewish mystic Baal Shem had a curious way of praying to God. "Remember, Lord," he would say, "you need me just as much as I need you. If you did not exist, whom would I pray to? If I did not exist, who would do the praying?" It brought me joy to think that if I had not sinned God would have had no occasion to be forgiving.

The lovely thing about Jesus was that he was so at home with sinners, because he understood that he wasn't one bit better than they were.

No one can sin in the light of awareness. Sin occurs, not, as we mistakenly think, in malice, but in ignorance. "Father, forgive them for they do not know what they are doing." To see this is to acquire the indiscriminate quality one so admires in the rose, the lamp and the tree.

Forgetting, he is learning, is how the world heals itself.

Some griefs can never be put right.

It is not so much the science of snow for me, anymore. I'd rather just look at it. The light, the way it absorbs sound. The way we feel as if the more that falls, the more we are forgiven.

Together, the unlikeliest of penitents, silently, grafting words to air, they sent their prayers into the room.

She does not want to be one of those middle-aged women who thinks of nothing but her own painful history.

a bondade, mais do que qualquer outra coisa, é o que perdura.

There are no more gates within him, no more divisions. It is as if everything he has done in his life has pooled together inside him and slops dully against his edges. His mother, the man he has killed, the languishing garden--he will never be able to live it down, never live through it, never live enough to compensate for all the things he has stolen.

It's not your fault, he said. And I'm not defending her for what she did. But I believe any story that anybody tells me. You can't be to blame if you got faith in people.

Clemency was to be "the new style of conquest.