Quotes About Forgiveness

Taking responsibility is a step toward redemption.

Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

It's better to be rid of them than to have to fight off unpleasant memories.

Stop dwelling on events and people who have disappointed you.

She felt angry enough to curse them, but in her heart she knew that she could lay no greater curse upon them than to be what they already were.

Then, suddenly, I reach out and wrap my granddad's hand in mine, like he once held mine, and for a while, the anger inside me quiets.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

Bertha knelt in front of me and took both my hands in hers and said, "Your mama loves you very much, Charlie. But sometimes, she just loses her way." Loses her way? I'd be happy to draw her a map to show her the way back to being my mama again.

You can't judge people for the mistakes they make. You judge them for how they fix those mistakes.

Prudence thanked him, experiencing that feeling of contrition which comes to all of us when we have made up our minds to dislike people for no apparent reason and they then perform some kind action.

The heart hates unfinished business

It's as though we loved our past, but our past didn't love us. So we go on strike and pretend we don't care, as if to punish fate for being unkind. Fate never cares, of course, so we only hurt ourselves.

forgive me, since this isn't my cabbage patch

There is a Jewish joke concerning the man who says of an enemy: Why does he hate me so? I never did him any good.

Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and greed.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions, and Michel duly paid for his clairvoyance.

It is a peculiar habit of Christianity to conceive the most compassionate and forgiving divinities and use them to sponsor atrocity.

Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.

The dog has an enviable mind; it remembers the nice things in life and quickly blots out the nasty.

There's no remedy for a spat between friends like visiting flaming, whirling death upon your enemies.

He that is without sin among you, let him be first to stone her.

the highest form of repentence is self-acceptance.