Quotes About Forgiveness

You see, it's the slow knife…the knife that takes its time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips between the bones. That's the knife—" With her other hand, she armed the trigger device. "—that cuts deepest.

If I cannot change what I had for lunch yesterday, I certainly cannot unmake a marriage, erase the betrayal of a friend, or board a ship that left port twenty years ago.

A man walks the straight and narrow all his life; he follows the rules, stays within the lines; then one day he makes a misstep. He crosses a line and sets in motion a chain of events that will take from him everything he has and damn him forever in the eyes of those he loves.

fathers and brothers who would readily kill to avenge those they should have loved far better when the person was alive.

Penitence is nothing but a form of self-indulgence. Some things you cannot wash from your hands, and there's no use in trying." He

To get right with God, we need to utter three difficult words: "I have sinned." God cannot forgive the sin we will not confess!

Remorse is feeling sorry, while repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

Unbelievers are not the enemy—they are people for whom Christ died. We need to remember we were each one of them once.

Like the prodigal's father, God accepts us as we are. But He doesn't want to leave us that way. God will change us.

Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past.

When you wrong someone, you don't get to say which grudges people may or may not hold

Remember what Confucius say: 'Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Like John Kennedy said, though, 'Forgive thy enemies but remember their names.

Nothing so terrible can be forgotten. But all she wanted—all the others had wanted—was a chance to get on with their own lives. They deserved and hoped for a chance at being normal. But that was never to be, though in time the headlines would shrink, the interest would ebb. But it could not be completely disregarded. There was always the angle. Always and forever.

Shame has a way of cutting one off from everyone one knows. Especially those who might forgive.

It seems there are no do-overs for bad mothers.

But, Kristen, the blood," he says, "I don't know how the blood got there." He glances at me, then back at his drink. He looks like he might cry. "Honey, you cut your finger at work," I say, though unconvincingly.

Thus, to take the phrases in Acts and make them into a magical incantation upon which God s forgiveness rests is to grossly misunderstand the phrase and, consequently, grossly misportray the kind of God whom Scripture reveals. Beyond

God wants everyone to be saved. He takes no delight in the destruction of any soul, however wicked (Ezek. 18:32; 33:11). From

The sinner . . . while retaining the ability to imagine, has forfeited the basis on which to imagine God."[

There is a word for such exercises we Germans do," Canaris said. "Vergangenheitsbewältigung—coming to terms with the past." Karl

We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.

Fear is a wolf on a chain, only dangerous when you set it free. Sorrow exhausts itself in the net of forgetting. Anger, for all its fury, can be killed by a smile. Only hope goes on forever, because hope doesn't belong to us: it belongs to our ancestors, the first of our kind, whose brave love for one another gave us most of the good that we are.