Quotes About Forgiveness

We all have incidents in our past we're not proud of, and the goal is to learn from them and become better people.

I know what I know," she said softly. "But I let go of the fury I had for that boy a long time ago. If I didn't, it would consume me. Like perhaps it's consuming you

We haven't officially met," she said softly. "I'm Charlotte Chamberlain. I'm very sorry for your loss." ... "I'm so sorry, Char," she whispered... "We're sorry we didn't give you a chance to explain," Madeline said.

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people's thinking.

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me

Faults They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before,— Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more.

Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.

Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.

You were never what I wanted to forget.

Today expect something good to happen to you no matter what occurred yesterday. Realize the past no longer holds you captive. It can only continue to hurt you if you hold on to it. Let the past go. A simply abundant world awaits. (January 11)

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Don't confuse mercy for forgiveness.

I want to go to the mother, take her hand, and tell her that although she and her daughter believe that every bad choice the daughter has ever made in life is her fault, it's not. It's really, really not.

You are treating yourself in present time much as you were treated by others in the past. And you punish yourself far more than anyone would ever punish you.

Dave couldn't remember the last time a grownup had apologized to him.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Forgiveness is not a one-time-only event. It is a process.

Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.

For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

You don't have to be afraid of looking into my face. We've done nothing to each other that time will not erase.