Quotes About Forgiveness

And so there's a struggle, or a contest, I guess you could say, all the time, it seems to me. And remorse, well, to be able to show remorse—to be able to be sorry about what we've done that's hurt other people—that keeps us human.

But Lucy loved them, she loved her mother, and her mother loved her! We're all just a mess, Angelina, trying as hard as we can, we love imperfectly, Angelina, but it's okay.

there's not one goddamn person in this world who doesn't have a bad memory or two to take with them through life.

In case you haven't noticed, people get hard-hearted against the people they hurt. Because we 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.

Jim, because he was angry even back then and trying to control it, she felt, and Bob because his heart was big. She didn't care much for Susan. "Nobody did, far as I know," she said.

And remorse, well, to be able to show remorse—to be able to be sorry about what we've done that's hurt other people—that keeps us human.

We're all just a mess, Angelina, trying as hard as we can, we love imperfectly, Angelina, but it's okay.

Maybe that means "letting them get away with it" -- but maybe it also means letting *you* get away *from* it.

Er schuilt een gif in vergiffenis.

Het is misschien niet altijd nodig elk detail te kennen, ' ging hij verder en hij zwoer dat hij naar de toedracht rond ....... dood niet verder zou peuren. 'Het moet toch mogelijk zijn, Modja, denk je niet, een zaak te laten rusten zonder dat je hem volledig hebt begrepen.

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

If I were a better version of me, I would not react faster than I think, would not be wounded when no harm was intended, would understand before too much time had passed to forgive...

A man who wants to mutilate himself is certainly damned, isn't he?

I shall ask forgiveness for having fed on lies. - Farewell

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

Mr. Charnock said: Men that are great in the world are quick in passion, and are not so ready to forgive an injury, or bear with an offender, as one of a meaner rank. It is a want of power over that man's self that makes him do unbecoming things upon a provocation. A prince that can bridle his passions is a king over himself as well as over his subjects. God is slow to anger because great in power. He has no less power over Himself than over His creatures.

David was at much pains to cover up his wickedness, but ere long the all-seeing God sent one of His servants to say to him, "Thou art the man"! And

When tempted to be disgusted at the dullness of another, or to be revenged on one who has wronged you, call to remembrance God's infinite patience and longsuffering with yourself.

God bears long with the wicked notwithstanding the multitude of their sin, and shall we desire to be revenged because of a single injury?

The depravity of mankind makes evident the infinite patience of God. "The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power" (Nahum 1:3).

There is always the hope that spiritual forces will be released which will work toward repentance and recovery.

It's a beautiful thing to refuse to forget...

However, one certainty floated in the air: that night, at the end of a conversation that should have brought them closer, something had been broken between them, definitively and forever. He did not know what, but there was the unmistakable noise of pieces shattering to the ground about him. The young woman would never forgive him for his cowardice -- or for his resignation.

I have only my sins to blame for the state I'm in today.