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Quotes About Forgiveness

Everyone always said forgiveness is not forgetting, that the act is as full of grace for the forgiver as the forgiven. This would not hurt her. She gazed at the old man across from her. She knew that she would never see him again, and she also knew she could never absolve him.
~ Luanne Rice
Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other . . . just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you . . . and I think death would show it to them. I'm glad I found out in life.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Every day is a new day without any mistakes in it yet.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Hate is only love that has missed its way.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
I have lost my mind is spells and I do not dare to think what I may do in those spells. May God forgive me and I hope everyone else will forgive me even if they cannot understand. My position is too awful to endure and nobody realizes it. What an end to a life in which I tried always to do my best.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
How jolly it was not to hate anybody anymore. Life and she were friends again.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Devemos nos arrepender dos erros e aprender com eles, mas nunca carregá-los conosco para o futuro. - Sra. Allan
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Isn't it nice to think tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Jutro jest wolne od bÅ'Ä™dów.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
And when people mean to be good to you, you don't mind very much when they're not quite—always
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
I have lost my mind in spells and I do not dare to think what I may do in those spells. May god forgive me and I hope everyone else will forgive even if they cannot understand. My position is too awful to endure and nobody realizes it. What an end to a life in which I tried always to do my best.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older — how to forgive.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Hate is only love that missed its way.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
One cannot reasonably be angry even at Hitler, let alone at God.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
From the beginning, the highway has always lacked grace-those who worship desert gods know them to favor retribution over the tender dove of forgiveness. In Desolation, doves are at the bottom of the food chain. Tohono O'Odham poet Ofelia Zepeda has pointed out that rosaries and Hail Marys don't work out here. You need a new kind of prayers, she says to negotiate with this land.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
I love you too much to let you do something that wrong. Even if I might hate you for it? Even if, she agreed, her voice scarcely a whisper. And that, Sarah, is why I love you so.
~ Lydia Joyce
Hating's easy. Couldn't be easier. It's just a default setting. The easy way out. It's all the rest that's actually hard.
~ Lydia Millet
Don't let us quarrel. We all have our weaknesses, dear friends; so we must strive to be considerate of one another. And since this poor boy is hungry and has nothing whatver to eat, let us all remain quiet and allow him to sleep; for it is said that in sleep a mortal may forget even hunger. - Scarecrow
~ Lyman Frank Baum
Don't let happiness slip through your fingers because of old angers and mistakes.
~ Lyn Denison
Regret and guilt are useless emotions that hold ye in a past that's already gone . . .
~ Lynsay Sands
mistakes were part of living, and the important thing was to learn from the mistakes you made so you didn't make them twice, and to forgive yourself for those mistakes, as well as others for the mistakes they made. She said not forgiving led to bitterness, and a bitter heart was good for nothing.
~ Lynsay Sands
Have yoy escaped your past? Or do your abusers still visit your dreams? I haven't escaped it, per se. You can't escape the past, or erase it like it was never there, It happened. But I learned to accept it,and even appreciate it.
~ Lynsay Sands