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Quotes About Forgiveness

I was a witness to lots of death... Saving a human life was something really, really beautiful... no matter who they are. Not only Israeli people owe me their lives. I guarantee many terrorists, many Palestinian leaders, owe me their lives - or in other words, they owe my Lord their lives.
~ Mosab Hassan Yousef
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
~ Jessamyn West
I am kind; I am humane. I open to you my fatherly arms. Come, all of you; I will receive you all - no less those of the South than those of the West, and of the North, who, gained over by Rigaud, have deserted your firesides, your wives, your children, to place yourselves at his side.
~ Toussaint Louverture
All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.
~ David Bailey
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.
~ Alexander Pope
I woke up one day, and for some reason all the hate and anger was gone.
~ Ronnie Radke
One night, my father woke me up because he'd come home with a horse. Two days later, I asked my mother where it was, and she said it had run away. She'd sold it.
~ Roisin Murphy
I looked at Robert Downey, Jr. and all these people - when you ask for redemption, people will give it to you. But if you're the boy who cried wolf, they'll destroy you.
~ Scooter Braun
We all have things in our lives that are terrible: you apologize for them; you wish you never had you name on it. But 'Teen Wolf' is something that I'm very proud of.
~ Jeph Loeb
Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
~ Ovid
My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she's so giving and loving and sweet and she always raised me how to forgive and forget and move on. She's the catalyst behind it all, my mom is. And I'm 100% a momma's boy!
~ Brody Jenner
I don't want to constantly berate my father - I wish him well, and I hope he finds peace - but he put my mom through years of mental abuse, and it made me care especially for abandoned women and children.
~ James Haven
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Get mad, then get over it.
~ Colin Powell
If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets.
~ John Cena
Things won't get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.
~ Jocko Willink
I'm constantly meeting people that I hurt, you know? This is not - when I go and talk about these things, this is not a theoretical - it's not a theoretical apology. It's something that I live every day.
~ Megan Phelps-Roper
I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'
~ Alice Hoffman
Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
~ Anita Loos
Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.
~ Karen Salmansohn
God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereignty he had gained over the human heart.
~ Saint Bernard
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
~ Tertullian
People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
~ Gary Lineker
People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.
~ Katherine Heigl