Quotes About Forgiveness

It's comforting when God lets you get away with something once in a while. And a little unnerving. You start to wonder what he's got set up for you next and why he's softening you up, like.

We think of forgiveness as a thing. An incident. A choice. But forgiveness is a process. A long, exhausting process. A series of choices that we have to make over, and over, and over again.

I'm not concerned about any terrible things you might have done," he said quietly. "I'm concerned about the terrible things that happened to you.

Forgiveness is cheaper than permission.

As if I took my little girl in my arms and held her tight and she's not a little girl anymore, and I still can't save her, can I? Because you can't. I can't save her from my mistakes. Any more than I could save Nell. But at least I can hold Leah's hand.

When we love, it is hard to forgive the beloved for not being the person we imagined them.

Punishing Benedick because she didn't like his honest answers got them no closer to healing.

Benedick's flesh, and his colony were replete with recollections that he would have preferred to erase, undo, or lose forever.

I hope you'll forgive me for ruining the symmetry of your genocide. I was invested in being discreet.

It was almost a clea hate, for a moment, untainted by her own failures.

Sorry doesn't cut it in my world. Pay me back, or get the hell out of my life.

Perceval had been slow in forgiving herself for her lost loved ones and enemies, and slower in forgiving the new Angel so forged in the exigencies of her birth.

Blinking, startled, as if he had utterly forgotten the Elf-Knight's existence, Kit turned away from the mortal men and hurried to Murchaud's side. Kit pulled Murchaud upright, checking his injuries with a fussiness that left Will tasting bile and jealousy.

I'm not going to like you," I told her. "Your friends killed my friends. There's no payback for a debt as big as the one you owe me.

We can bite down on a grudge and grin around it until the end of time.

Hating people doesn't accomplish anything except poisoning yourself. I should turn it off. I should let it go. The thing was, first I had to want to let it go.

You left me," David said at last. "You were angry company." But the fingers that traced his brow and cheek were anything but angry. "I wasn't angry at you.

He just wanted to die and now he's in me, and Mallory won't let him die.

He remembered hard hands turned generous, and shuddered.

Sure. A girl can walk away from her dreams of vengeance. I still want to see Valens court-martialed for what he did to me almost thirty years back. On the other hand, he's saved my life twice now. Sometimes things get a little hard to reconcile.

He wanted to dig a hole and put the past inside it and cover it back up again. He didn't know if flowers would grow there or not. He hoped they would.

People wanted to be redeemed, she thought. Everyone did. We're only human.

What do you do with your anger when the person you're mad at goes off and dies? Bury it? Bury it inside you?

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.