Quotes About Forgiveness

No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.

I'd spare your tears for the rest of your life if I could.

Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

Fire sat unbreathing. A life that was an apology for the life of his father: It was a notion she could understand, beyond words and thought. She understood it the way she understood music.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.

Don't confuse acceptance with being a naïve or weak person. Acceptance does not mean condoning negative behavior, staying in a bad situation, or not working to improve our life and the world.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

I think back and I really feel for what he (Roger Maris) went through, for all the negative stuff that was going on in his life. I wish it didn't happen.

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

The gospel is the good news that God is doing a completely new thing in Jesus - demonstrating divine righteousness, making people right in relationship to God and each other, forgiving sins, liberating from the prison of Sin. Such a gospel frees from guilt - actions that break covenant with God - and overcomes shame - makes right the broken relationships that put people down and make them angry. God's salvation restores shalom.

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.

They had forgiven themselves for the harm they had done each other, and they were rapt in a regard of what their life together might have been.

When I act politely, I build a reserve of goodwill in others. That reserve allows those people to cut me some slack when I do something annoying.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Sometimes in life, you make a mistake and there's no buts and no explanations … There's no peace in 'I'm sorry, but.' You can't find peace until you truly understand that the only thing to say is, 'I'm sorry,' period. ~ John Lucas, as quoted in 'The Punch' by John Feinstein

Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

I thought I'd stumbled on Sleeping Beauty and her ugly sister,' said another voice, 'waiting for the kiss of true love to wake them from their slumbers. Forgive me if I didn't oblige.