Quotes About Forgiveness

We have to forget the past. History is something that even today we are paying the consequences, and the future is integration. We all as a people, as citizens, as the leadership of both countries should be looking in that direction.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

If we were not sinners, Jesus would not have had to come. If he didn't see us as sinners, he could have loved us without dying for us. He died for our sins. So if we're all sinners, that means everybody's in the pot together needing the same love, the same grace and the same forgiveness.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Tolerance as practiced by the Christian, enlightened West was never about thinking that bad people are good but that we are all called to love the sinner and hate the sin.

I am a living example of PM Modi's tolerance... he forgave me though I publicly attacked him.

America is very tolerant of mistakes.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

Mass incarceration and its never-ending human toll will be with us until we come to see that no crime justifies permanent civic death.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home.

Such command and honesty! Your figures are full of emotion, for instance, here – points at the panel – the figure of Judas on his knees, wringing his hands in self-hatred and pleading for forgiveness… Who would have thought that someone your age, a miller at that, could put so much into a figure!

to feed, help, protect, comfort, console, support, nurse, or heal to be fed, helped, nursed, protected, comforted, consoled, supported, nursed, or healed to form mutually enjoyable, enduring, cooperating and reciprocating relationship with Other, with an equal to be forgiven to be loved to be free

Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night

The cycle of violence needs extreme love to break it.

Having a worst regret betrays your belief that one misstep caused all your undeserved misfortune.

Forgive me for being the stupidest man on the planet?" "Careful. You're talking about the man I love.

No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guessed you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.

you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.

He smiled. Not one of the dazzlers he used to get his own way. Just a smile, a little one kind of crooked. And Kethe, it was like I'd never been made at him at all.

Guilt was like the taste of ashes.

Hayley—I owe you an apology.' He tried to redeem himself. 'Can we start this conversation again?' 'I don't think so. It was bad enough the first time.