Quotes About Forgiveness

None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, "Do not magnify the imperfections of others.

Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.

And I've finally learned that no amount of intense, repetitive thinking is ever going to change the past. I've learned what "let it go" means.

He said, 'Don't mind what happened to me. Don't be angry. I'm a frail creature with certain crude reflexes.

where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves.

I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.

History remembers the velvet hearted.

He was talking to strangers, hoping they would absolve him. They are the only ones who ever can.

You could think a grackle was somebody you'd lost, or wronged, or owed a favor to, come back to settle accounts.

If someone means well, but does ill, the ill is still done—and the consequences still exist. Besides, if intent forgives wrong, then any wrongdoer can claim good intent.

Never regret the stupidity of enemies

Let the past go, Bren, or it will ruin your future.

When you love, it will hurt. You have to choose to forgive, again and again. But it's worth it. That's the crux of human relationships, Dobbs. The sweetest thing. Loving deeply. And forgiving.

Some people ask me what it's like to be forgiven, to feel grace. It's like walking on a long stretch of beach with nothing in sight but sky and waves and sand. With the sun piercing its brightness, the water tickling my toes, the roaring of the sea singing omniscience and power and yet, a deep peace, the waters changing from sandy brown to light green to a heavy blue, the waves cresting with the white peaks and then rushing to find my toes.

could i have loved you better? maybe. if that's true, then i'm sorry. could i have loved you more? i don't think it's possible.

she was a person, jen, and people aren't perfect. and she wasn't perfect. and that's okay

I will not ask you for forgiveness. What I have done is unforgivable. I was so lost in hatred and revenge. I never dreamed that I could love you so much. You stole what was left of my heart. And now I've lost you forever.

softly, her voice cracking with emotion. "I will not ask you for forgiveness. What I have done is unforgivable. I was so lost in hatred and revenge. I never dreamed that I could love you so much. You stole what was left of my heart. And now I've lost you forever." She paused, wiping a tear. "But I swear, no harm will come to you as long as I live…and not a day shall pass that I won't miss your smile.…

You're right . . . you can't go back. No matter how much you want to, you never can

Too late, too late, juice pouring does not a kind soul make, and I killed you.

Summarized) Forgiveness is a choice that presents itself to us in the form of three critical questions: 1) Can I give up the hope of a better past? 2) What is the day, the hour, the now - when I fulfill the promise to myself to let it go? 3) How will I integrate what's happened into who I choose to become in the future?

Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)

In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because they can't stand it. Literally. To think we did that to someone. I did that. So we think of all the reasons why it's okay we did whatever we did.

And when I found out that I had been living a parallel life, a dishonest life, it crushed me. But I have often thought that it made me a nicer person, I really do. When you are truly humbled, that can happen. I have come to notice this in life. You can become bigger or bitter, that is what I think. And as a result of that pain, I became bigger. Because I understood then how a woman could not know. It had happened, and it had happened to me.