Quotes About Forgiveness

God forgives and forgets sins, but He never forgets a good deed.

Catholicism makes greater allowance than Protestantism for human frailty, and it has doubtless contributed toward much that is commendable in Italy: compassion, a reluctance to judge and a readiness to forgive—all themes that will recur in later chapters of this book.

He who was not legalist at any other point, and who was ready without hesitation to pardon prostitutes and disreputable people, was nonetheless extremely strict upon one point: "only one who practices grace can receive grace.

Forgive your neighbor's injustice. Then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. —Ecclesiasticus 28:2

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.

La memoria suele nublar el dolor. La madre olvida la agonía del parto cuando le ponen al bebé en los brazos.

Revenge serves to cleanse the heart and soul. It has been around since the first caveman climbed down out of a tree and bashed his brother over the head for some slight of honor.

Y si nos ofenden, ¿no nos vengamos? Si somos como vosotros en lo demás, también nos pareceremos a vosotros en esto. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, El mercader de Venecia

A man without a past, he thought, can write any future.

Love in a hut, with water and a crust,Is—Love, forgive us!—cinders, ashes, dust.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted to break out crying from stabs of hopeless joy, or intolerable promise, or because these mornings were too full of beauty for me, because I knew of too much hate to be contained in a world like this.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

As Confucius says, under some circumstances murder can be forgiven; but unreasonableness never is.

having by his fault forfeited his own life, by some act that deserves death; he, to whom he has forfeited it, may (when he has him in his power) delay to take it, and make use of him to his own service, and he does him no injury by it:

There was not enough pain in Akhil's body to pay for all of this.

In the preaching of the kingdom, law and gospel come together. The coming of the kingdom is the coming of a King to enforce his law on a disobedient world, that is, to enforce his covenant against covenant-breakers. But the King who comes is full of love and forgiveness. So his coming is good news, gospel, not only because he judges the wicked, but because he brings redemption, forgiveness, and reward to his redeemed people.

Meyer is a transcendent warmth, the listening ear of a total understanding and forgiveness, a humble wisdom.

And I want you to understand: I felt terrible. I've felt awful virtually every time I've had one of my on-court meltdowns, with the exception of a few occasions when I really believed I needed to let someone have it. But those really are the exceptions. I've apologized a number of times afterward to umpires and players. And to anyone out there who felt they deserved an apology but didn't get one: I apologize now.

you are moving to the death of having to describe the real face of your life to your God in his priest, and to beg forgiveness, and promise, for there is still time.

real intimacy is a place where there are no mistakes, at least not in the sense you feel. You don't just blow everything with one wrong move. A friendship is a space where you're supposted and free to make mistakes.

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot.

Though they had a chance. God forgives them if they would leave the devil and come to Him and go back to the people. They are not guilty of the devil's sins and He has declared them to be free of the devil's sins.

good person, a mom and a teacher, a reader and a thinker, the most generous friend in what she was willing to accept and forgive.