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Quotes About Forgiveness

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.
~ Lisa Unger
Every time you slip, you owe me a kiss.
~ Lori Foster
Much of Satan's time is spent trying to make you remember what God has already forgotten. Reconcile, rejoice, and look forward.
~ Mark Hart
If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?
~ Maya Angelou
Not 'Don' in that I-m-sorry-and-now-you'll-forgive-me-like-you-always-do-way. Not this time, Keenan." (Donya)
~ Melissa Marr
Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.
~ Milan Kundera
But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.
~ Moby
People mess up and make mistakes all the time. Everyone deserves a second chance right? - Brandon
~ Molly McAdams
Some wounds should be healed, no matter how much time has passed or how much time is left.
~ Nalini Singh
Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene
~ Mark Twain
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
~ Mark Twain
He has one code of morals for himself, and quite another for his children. He requires his children to deal justly—and gently—with offenders, and forgive them seventy-and-seven times; whereas he deals neither justly nor gently with anyone, and he did not forgive the ignorant and thoughtless first pair of juveniles even their first small offense and say, "You may go free this time, I will give you another chance.
~ Mark Twain
I don't blame anybody.  I deserve it all.  Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know—there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as it's always done, and take everything from me—loved ones, property, everything; but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest.
~ Mark Twain
Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
~ Mark Twain
I admit that I treed a rheumatic grandfather of mine in the winter of 1850. He was old and inexpert in climbing trees, but with the heartless brutality that is characteristic of me I ran him out of the front door in his night-shirt at the point of a shotgun, and caused him to bowl up a maple tree, where he remained all night, while I emptied shot into his legs. I did this because he snored. I will do it again if I ever have another grandfather.
~ Mark Twain
And who has prayed for Satan? In eight hundred years, who has had the common decency to pray for the one sinner who needed it most?
~ Mark Twain
Oprost je miris koji ljubi?ica ostavi na stopalu koje ju je zdrobilo.
~ Mark Twain
What can a person's heart be made of that can pity a Christian's child and yet can't pity a devil's child, that a thousand times more needs it!
~ Mark Twain
El perdón es la fragancia que la violeta suelta cuando se levanta el zapato que la aplastó.
~ Mark Twain
Perdón es el aroma que la violeta deja en el zapato que la aplastó.
~ Mark Twain
Children have but little charity for each other's defects.
~ Mark Twain
Regret fills our bodies when we've wronged someone.
~ Mark Twain
It was a new business to me, and I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says: "Yes; the little ones does.
~ Mark Twain
As the service proceeded, the clergyman drew such pictures of the graces, the winning ways, and the rare promise of the lost lads, that every soul there, thinking he recognized these pictures, felt a pang in remembering that he had persistently blinded himself to them, always before, and had as persistently seen only faults and flaws in the poor boys.
~ Mark Twain