Quotes About Forgiveness

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

all cruelty and passion must burn away at last to leave behind them only pity.

Insults should be written in the sand, and praises carved in stone.

The sinning is the best part of repentance.

Most wars between individuals are of the 'cold' rather than the 'hot' variety---lingering resentment, for example, grudges long held, resources clutched rather than shared, help not offered. These are the acts of war that most threaten our homes and workplaces.

As painful as it is to receive contempt from another, it is more debilitating by far to be filled with contempt for another.

In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we've done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can't.

You wanted justice ,didn't you?There isn't any...there is only love." - J.B's wife

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.

Welcome to the gates of heaven Adelia, and what did you do with your life? My Lord, I was a bishop's whore.

She thought, watching him, 'I am in a bath, naked in a bath with no bubbles, and a man is washing me; my reputation is doomed and to hell with it. I've been to hell and all I wanted in it was to be alive for this man. Who carried me out of it.

El rencor es como beber veneno y esperar a que la otra persona muera.   CARRIE FISHER

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous harm, proclaiming that only your pain matters in this world. More than against that person's body, you will then, at that moment, be committing a crime against your own imagination.

Maybe what shame needs to stay alive is the consent of the shamed.

Ring the bells that still can ring; forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything; that's how the light gets in.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Grandma laughed. "You'd be surprised. It's awfully hard to dislike someone when you really pray for them. In fact the person you pray for could turn out to be one of your best friends.

I'm sure there are better people out there who don't hold grudges. People who can rise above the petty hurts and forgive and forget when they've been slighted or angered. I'm not one of them.

A wounded love carries a scar to the grave.

However, as good or as bad as yesterday may have been, it is unchangeable. There is nothing I can do to bring it back.

To hate and to blame would be so easy. But in the end, those who collect stones as a reminder of the past wrongdoings find themselves carrying far greater weights than the very people who have done them wrong.

I'm not saying people should not be held accountable for their hurtful behavior. But the only thing blaming does is to keep the focus off you. It means you aren't dealing with your problems.

I must come back to a point I have made repeatedly: never treat others with contempt, even if you believe they deserve it.