Quotes About Forgiveness

People have the wrong idea that God will forgive Reagan. They say he didn't know what he was doing. It's true he didn't know a lot of what was going on, but he was directly responsible.

A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

I am more forgiving because I realize that all of our family histories - definitely mine - its populated with thieves and liars and incompetent people who werent bad people and who Im not ashamed of, but who are my family.

When you start to think of revenge, you start to think of hate. I don't believe in hating people. It's a retrogressive thing.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

People make mistakes, and bad things happen.

I'm from L.A. I've seen a lot worse things happen than a guy taking some glasses.

You can't halfway disrespect me ever in my life and think we are going to be OK later.

I believe in second chances, but I don't believe in third or fourth chances.

What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more?

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.

For a real New India to arise, all petty and small things must be given up. To be redeemed, all Indians must offer to sacrifice not only their good things, but all those evil things they cling to blindly - their hates and their divisions, their pride in what they should be thoroughly ashamed of, their quarrels and misunderstandings.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

Loving isn't finding perfection, but forgiving horrible faults.

The only reason I didn't kill my parents is because I did not want to spend my life in prison.