Quotes About Forgiveness

It's important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It's equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it's best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love.

I believe that pain needs to be transformed but not forgotten; gainsaid but not obliterated.

True greatness and true power is faithful all the way down, including humbly quick to admit limitedness, sin and brokenness, and to ask for forgiveness.

I hate you, Andy,' says Jen. 'I really HATE you. I REALLY, REALLY HATE YOU!' 'Jen!' says Mum, coming into the room with a cup of tea in one hand and a crossword puzzle book in the other. 'What an awful thing to say to your brother! Apologise to him this instant!' 'But, Mum …' says Jen. 'No buts,' says Mum. 'There's no excuse for speaking like that. Apologise right now!

I am the most forgiving of men… but standards must be maintained!

What have I done? If I have killed my beloved lord, I will never forgive myself! And if he lives — neither will he!

It is better to forgive and lose than to face the consequences.

We cannot repay evil for evil. Evil can only be overcome with good.

It's not so reasonable, Emmie, to believe you know everything about everyone's life. So how can you be disappointed at something that happened so long ago. You're angry because you know you have no right to be angry.

I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

How can adults expect forgiveness of children?It is an adult emotion. It is not a child's natural instinct to make compromises on behalf of a parent.

Are we, as we age, I wonder, repaid for all our thoughtless gestures?

No matter how unjustly you've been treated, if you start fighting fire with fire, you'll get burned.

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)

Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back. She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn't forget?

When you open yourself to somebody, when you feel these thing that you feel, well, what do you do? You can try to ignore it, maybe you can try to forget about it, but you can't undo it and you can't give it back.

I know you are always finding ways to love me in spite of how horrible I am, I hope I haven't run out of chances.

He'd given up blessings he hadn't been worthy of for the chance to be with her, and now he'd lost that, too.

Do you think it's easier to be mad at people you trust?" her mom asked very softly. "Why is that?" "Because you trust that they'll love you anyway.

But why would you wanna break                       a perfectly good heart?               ââ'¬â€Taylor Swift

Back then, I would have begged forgiveness from my friends in the BSC. I would have tried like crazy to balance my time between school, the club, Robert and my family. I would have gone on feeling guilty about my boyfriend at BSC meetings, embarrassed about one set of friends while I was with the other, but I wasn't feeling apologetic now or guilty or ashamed.