Quotes About Forgiveness

It is so natural, socially speaking, to laugh at the failings of others that we ought to forgive the ridicule our own absurdities excite, and be annoyed only by calumny.

Women will not suffer their idol to step down from his pedestal. They do not forgive the slightest pettiness in a god.

What woman wants pity?... A man's sternness is to us our only pardon.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

El arrepentimiento nunca llega antes

Als junges Mädchen hatte ich meine eigene Theorie, was die Liebe betraf. Alles hing davon ab, ob ich bereit war, einem Menschen zu verzeihen, was er in seiner Phantasie mit mir anstellte. Auch die schmutzigsten Phantasien. Wenn nicht, blieb es bei einer normalen Freundschaft, egal, wie gut wir uns verstanden.

Quando rispondiamo al rancore con altro rancore, allora è il momento in cui dobbiamo fermarci. Solo in questo modo potremo smettere di incontrare persone che vivono in preda allo stesso sentimento

Remember – it's always easier to get forgiveness than permission

È sempre più facile ottenere il perdono che il permesso

Yours and Finn's? What happened between you is like a rockslide that came out of nowhere, but maybe those rocks are not so insurmountable. Maybe they could build a bridge between you two.

rainbows apologizing for angry skies

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

One with compassion is kind even when angry; one without compassion will kill even as he smiles. SHABKAR, TIBETAN POET

All these years later, I recognize this as the way that winners often speak of those they have harmed beyond repair. Trying to find some way to live with what we have done, we find solace in the idea that their doom was their own doing.

It doesn't mean we forget what's been done to us. But we remember that we don't have to understand God, just to trust Him and have faith in Him.

We should confess our sins to God, Torilla, but never, if it would hurt them, to other people. . . . If anyone must bear the consequences of a wrong action, it should be the person who had done it.

The notion of marriage as a union between two sovereign selves affirms virtues like independence, initiative, and self-reliance. Yet while attending to the virtues associated with the integrity of the individual, our contemporary discourse on marriage entirely neglects the virtues that are essential to the integrity of bonds--virtues like fidelity, kindness, forgiveness, modesty, gratitude, loyalty, patience, generosity, and selflessness.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.

Anyhow, one thing I've learned this past year is that we're all responsible for our own hearts. If someone does break ours—and I doubt you've actually broken this boy's—it's up to us to figure out a way forward.

But wasn't a best friend also someone you could trust not to hurt you? I had hurt Vicki, yet here she was, opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.

Sitting at my kitten's grave, I forgave myself for the last ten years. Wrong turns? No. I had acted in good faith, doing what I thought was right. But what was right, now, was seeing that my needs had changed. One of those new needs had just surfaced. I wanted a pet. I didn't care what kind; James could choose. Or not. He would argue against it, but when I thought of my baby and the

opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.

Susan could feel his anguish radiating through the fingers that held hers so tightly. She was close enough to him to know what he was feeling far more than fear for his mother's life. He hadn't seen the woman in fifteen years. At that moment, he was deeply regretting the separation.

Anger was what came of hurt that had simmered too long.