Quotes About Forgiveness

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn't have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.

I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn't met me.

We all make mistakes. Go and take your punishment, then come back and start again.

you can hang on to your hurt out of some misplaced sense of pride, or you can just let go and relish whatever precious time you have.

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

Jess's grandmother had often said that the key to a happy life was a short memory.

We all make mistakes. Go and take your punishment, then come back and start again. Do even better next time. I know you can.

Some mistakes...just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you. You have the choice not to let that happen.

You shall forget that I am part of an enemy army, I shall forget that you are a woman who spends much of her time working out how to subvert that army, and we shall just . . . be two people?

I don't know. Maybe I just believe in second chances.

She could show her daughter that there was another way to live. A way that did not involve anesthetizing yourself. A way that did not mean you lived your whole life as an apology for who you were.

Sometimes i still think about when we used to fight and I feel really bad because if I'd known what was going to happen to her, I would have tried to be nice to her every day. I say 'try' because it's quite hard to be nice to someone every day. Even my mum gets on my nerves sometimes but I'm always nice to her because I know she's still sad, and because I'm all she has left.

Had he actually possessed the ability simply to airbrush an entire daughter out of his conscience?

I'm not saying she wasn't wrong to do it. I'm just saying maybe that one moment shouldn't be the whole thing that defines her. Or your relationship with her.

Some mistakes have greater consequences then others. You don't have to let one mistake define you

best way to get through life was not to dwell on things so she packed those events into a suitcase, and shoved it to the back of a mental cupboard,

She had once been told by her favorite aunt that the best way to get through life was not to dwell on things so she packed those events into a suitcase, and shoved it to the back of a mental cupboard, just as she had done with numerous suitcases before.

to say sorry. Oh, Louisa, you can hang on to your hurt out of some misplaced sense of pride, or you can just let go and relish whatever precious time you have.

He had heard religious people talk about having revelatory experiences. Like there was one moment where everything became clear to them and all the crap and ephemera just floated away. It had always seemed pretty unlikely to him. But the Ed Nicholls had one such moment in a log cabin beside a stretch of water that might have been a lake, or might well have been a canal for all he could tell...And he realized in that moment that he had to make things right.

I told myself there was no point in dwelling on something that was gone.

I'm dying, Louisa. I'm an old woman and I'm not going to get an awful lot older, and my son, who I thought was lost to me, has been gracious enough to swallow his pain and his pride and reach out. Can you imagine? Can you imagine what it is to have someone do that for you?

Te fallé, Will. Te fallé en todas las maneras posibles.

Some mistakes…just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you." I