Quotes About Forgiveness

Could you ever completely give up on someone that you loved? From her painful experience with Travis, Lily didn't think so..

Everybody makes mistakes. But that's the magic of family--knowing that underneath whatever you've said and done, you are still loved. And that you always will be, no matter what.

People don't like to speak ill of the dead even when they're monsters, let alone when they're loved ones. People like to forget any bad things that someone did and why should they remember?

Then he smiled at me and for that moment, and just that moment, I forgave him everything—everything—because now I knew what joy looked like and I was part of it.

Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. Publius Cornelius Tacitus

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

Per quanto possiamo cambiare, dobbiamo sempre pagare per le cose che abbiamo fatto.

I didn't love every group I encountered. In fact, I'll be quite happy to never see gun-and-coin dude again. But I learned to stand in other people's shoes, as much as a child can. It's hard to view certain people as anything but monsters, yet there's value in giving it the old college try. By dignifying even the most despicable character as a human being, by offering them what empathy we can manage, we also hold them accountable for their choices.

If you could figure out how to live with family then you'd gone a long way toward finding your peace.

There was no such thing as perfection in this world, only moments of such extreme transparency that you forgot yourself, a holy mercy if there ever was one.

Don't cry over spilled milk

Guilt's a terrible thing.

There shall be no love lost.

retribution [sic] for the wrongs I have committed.

Separation from her two-year-old son would leave a permanent scar. Ursula defended that bleak decision for the rest of her life. But she never quite forgave herself.

Love isn't blind… It just involves a lot of looking the other way

I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squashed, and both his eyes had burst. He had bluish wings. He was the saddest ghost in the house.

I told her truthfully that it had been more my fault than hers.

It would appear, then, that Jesus' praxis was to relate to all people, even the least, last, and lost, even notorious sinners, and allow them to be healed or helped by him without prior change of life or behavior.

if err we must, and assume that "where there is life, there is hope" for any sinner.

Remember, forgiveness is freedom.

It's a little too little It's a little too late I'm a little too hurt And there's nothin' left that I've gotta say You can cry to me baby But there's only so much I can take Ah, it's a little too little It's a little too late

The Church is a collection of poor sinners. The Catholic Church is a collection of 1.1 billion very poor sinners. That's a lot of original sins, and it is no wonder we have trouble.

Everything that God said about redemption means, the saving grace allowed you to be forgiven.