Quotes About Forgiveness

Humbly aware of your sins and the need for forgiveness.

Why do I have to repent or ask for forgiveness, if I am not making mistakes?

Do good unto others..Cherish your loved ones while they are still there.. Guilt and repentance are the worst forms of penance ..

Pain will no longer be our curse, Molly

Sin is the one thing I abhor - for it is the one thing that can, if unrepented of, separate us, not from Christ, but from the consciousness of his presence. But I have learned that there is instantaneous forgiveness and restoration to be had always. That there need be no times of despair.

In her own mind she was adding that forgiveness did not necessarily mean that forgetting went with it.

Oh, I know, I know, she was a sweet girl, a simple country girl; everyone told me that, both then and since. But I could not forgive her animal dumbness - worse, her rank sensuality, easy as any cow's, and like her dumpling breasts, quite irresistable to men - while those of us whom God has made to think and feel, who are strung out like harps along the wires of our own nature, why, we are rarer than music and must content ourselves with smaller audiences.

I made a big mistake, which I'm really trying to deal with. You bringing it up makes me feel worse. I'm not sure if that's your point, but I promise you that I would never make you feel bad if you were in my situation, so I'm done talking about this." GIRLS

Advice to Young Journal Keepers . Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?

She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.

which...to kill yourself means never having to say you're sorry.

to poison his spirit, drowned it methodically, savagely, choked it off. Alcohol had been the tool. He thought back to when he took the first drink of his first real dirty drunk and remembered how he'd wept into the amber flame deep in the cup and how his sorrow had been answered with a spreading warmth and a forgetting.

I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain.

James McBride's Deacon King Kong.

I will always be haunted by what I did too... and so we sat there. Two haunted women.

You can't get over things you did to other people as easily as the things they did to you.

Out of a whole lifetime, by God, sometimes the only thing that saves a person is error, and I know that we shall not be saved so long as our error is not precious to us.

You can't get over things you do to other people as easily as you get over things they do to you.

I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free.

Looking out of the window at the infinite sky, I prayed out, 'Dear Baby Jesus, I am sorry for my sin, even though I do not know what they are, which seems a bit unfair if it is going to be held against me. But that is your way. And I am not questioning your wisdomosity. In future, however, would it be possible for my life to be not so entirely crap? Thank you.

You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things that are in a man's past have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelopes them all.

Evrende ac? oldu?u kadar merhemi de vard?r ve bu merhem unutu?tur. - Sayfa 28

Kate's love helps me forgive myself for my own death. The choices I made, the people I hurt. But now I know—the best of us waste our time repenting, forgiving everyone but ourselves. And the worst don't even realize there is anything to forgive. Hungry ghosts wander the earth, trapped in the bardo, seeking redemption that had been there all along.

But now I know—the best of us waste our time repenting, forgiving everyone but ourselves.