Quotes About Forgiveness

Besides, her abuela had always said 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.

Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

who can but shiver and forgive in the damp theatrical airs of dawn? A

O maior pecado, depois do pecado, é a publicação do pecado.

eu não odeio nada nem ninguém - perdono a tutti, como na ópera.

Ouça-me este conselho: em política, não se perdoa nem se esquece nada.

we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.

Então levado do remorso, usei ainda uma vez do meu velho meio das promessas espirituais e pedi que me perdoasse e salvasse a vida de minha mãe, e eu lhe rezaria dois mil padre-nossos. [...] Eram mais dois mil; aonde iam os antigos? Não paguei uns nem outros, mas saindo de almas cândidas e verdadeiras tais promessas são como a moeda fiduciária - ainda que o vendedor as não pague, valem a soma que dizem.

Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

Once you understand a wound it loses its power to destroy you.

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.

Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' Stay mad! You won't even let me get mad at you,' and then they laugh. Aren't you sorry for people who don't laugh, Vicky? Yes. And people who don't love music and books. And people, John said.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Aeschylus writes, In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.

One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how wrong somebody is—how shallow it is to look at the Resurrection as a mere, explainable fact—when I see only the mistakenness of others, then I am blinded to their being children of God, who are just as valued and treasured as are those who more nearly agree with me.

But his love is greater than all our hate and he will not rest until Judas has turned to him, until Satan has turned to him, until dark has turned to him; until we can all, all of us without exception, freely return his look of love with love in our own eyes and hearts. And then, healed, whole, complete but not finished, we swill know the joy of being co-creators with the one to whom we call. Amen. Even so, come Lord Jesus.

Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go. Not a bad ability. ... I'm not sure. I think we have to remember it all before we can forgive it.

Our sins defeat us unless we are willing to recognize them, confess them, and so become healed and whole and holy -- not qualified, mind you; just holy.

All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.

William Langland, writing around 1400, said, 'And all the wickedness in the world that man might work or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal in the sea.

We want nothing from you that you do without grace," Mrs Whatsit said, "or that you do without understanding.

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate.