Quotes About Forgiveness

The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is the faults of friends rather than enemies which most disturb hearts!

Repentance is not concerned with consequences. This is what distinguishes it from remorse, which is inspired principally by fear of unpleasant consequences

God can do something with those who see what they really are and who know their need of cleansing but can do nothing with the man who feels himself worthy.

Pain is sacrifice without love. Sacrifice is pain with love. When we understand this, then we shall have an answer for those who feel that God should have let us sin without pain:

It is not wisdom that saves; it is ignorance! There is no redemption for the fallen

Why repentance? Because it is the first act of a soul which turns back to God, the first stroke that severs sin from the heart.

One reason for a long life is penance. Time is given us not just to accumulate that which we cannot take with us, but to make reparation for our sins.

The man who says, 'I am so stupid,' instead of 'Lord be merciful to me, I sinner,' is still far from rebirth.

God does not always spare the good from grief. The Father spared not the Son, and the Son spared not the mother.

They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness.

Some things in life you just have to erase. If you're going to go on with your existence, you have to drop them into a deep dark well somewhere in your soul, and trudge onward as if they never happened.

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

Todavia era demasiado joven para saber que la memoria del corazón elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos, y que gracias a ese artificio logramos sobrellevar el pasado.

Tan pronto como quedó libre, Sierva María le saltó al cuello, y permanecieron abrazados sin hablar mientras ella lloraba. Él la dejó desahogarse. Luego le levantó la cara y le dijo No más lágrimas. Y enlazó con Garcilaso. Bastan las que por vos tengo lloradas.

Tan pronto como quedó libre, Sierva María le saltó al cuello, y permanecieron abrazados sin hablar mientras ella lloraba. E´la dejó desahogarse. Luego le levantó la cara y le dijo No más lágrimas. Y enlazó con Garcilaso. Bastan las que por vos tengo lloradas.

Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.

We promised to be kind to each other, to be patient, to forgive each other's faults, to be steadfast and true, and to keep joy in our love.

I pushed your boat out of the gentle stream where you were merrily singing and rowing Forgive me life is but a nightmare

General Confession it had been watered down to we are truly sorry and we humbly repent.

If someone had really done you an ill turn and later came to you and said, "I am truly sorry," would that mean as much to you as "the burden of it has been intolerable to me"?

My tongue goes to the Secretary of the Dead to tell the corpses, I'm sorry, fellows, the killing was just one of those things difficult to pre-visualize - like a cow, say, getting hit by lightning.

Une seule minute de réconciliation mérite mieux que toute une vie d'amitié.

I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

Never find fault with the absent.