Quotes About Forgiveness

Each morning's worship service began with a confession of sin. I thought to myself, "It's nine o'clock in the morning, and we've already been bad.

But "redemption" in the Bible and in Paul is not about the forgiveness of sins. Rather, it is a metaphor of liberation from bondage—from life in Egypt, from a life of slavery. "The redemption that is in Christ Jesus" would be better translated "the liberation that is in Christ Jesus." We are liberated through him.

Jim Crace's Quarantine [1997] and Norman Mailer's The Gospel According to the Son [1997].

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

Il y a encore de certains devoirs à remplir envers même de qui nous avons reçu une injure; car la vengeance et la punition ont aussi leurs bornes. Je ne sais même si repentir de celui qui a fait l'injure ne suffirait pas et pour l'empêcher d'en faire une semblable à l'avenir et pour retenir les autres dans le devoir.

El pasado es también el presente y el futuro. La nación que olvida está pérdida.

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that others have done to you.

Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don't let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.

There's only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

Those in pain have no time for the pain they cause.

He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that others have done to you.

But who can remember pain, once it's over?

How can I have behaved so badly, so cruelly, so stupidly? you will ask. You yourself would never have done such things! But you yourself will never have had to.

But if you happen to be a man, sometime in the future, and you've made it this far, please remember: you will never be subject to the temptation or feeling you must forgive, a man, as a woman. It's difficult to resist, believe me. But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.

Nobody's heart is perfect.

Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and can be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

I forgave her, of course. I always did; I had to, because there were only the two of us. The two of us on our thorn-encircled island, waiting for rescue; and, on the mainland, everyone else.

Sorry solves nothing

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness