Quotes About Forgiveness

For long after guilty memories fade, the urge for penance lingers: strong and blind as the will to drink rain and grope for sunlight.

We may be immune to typhoid, tetanus, chickenpox, diphtheria, but never memory. There is no inoculation against that.

Killing hurts the heart and soils the soul.

What would have comforted that writhing woman in a lost bed in the lost land of Strandhill I do not know. If I were a horse they would have shot me out of mercy.

Little sins of omission that loom large now. You could go mad.

She was trying to wash the violence off of him.

Todos tivemos pais, e nem sempre fomos bons filhos, muitos de nós.

Her eyes were as green as the sea, and forever I forgave the sea for not appearing blue.

Of our pasts we seemed to know all we needed to know. Nothing was concealed, and though nothing was overtly revealed, all was known. In guilt and in forgiveness we counted ourselves equals, and always had. The sun himself envied us.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

How do you honor a witch who betrayed you?

his enemies would make him suffer even more for the pain he had caused so many before he became a beast.

Countless stories like this have been told over the years, and how do they end? Always in misery for the wicked queen or witch, always with death. And always she was wronged in some way, by something or some person who set her on this path.

My ghosts weren't ghosts anymore. They were people and they loved me. Anita was right. They were my family.

So in practicing blanket forgiveness you first assume that in any current condition of pain or discomfort there is some anger involved, even if you don't know what it's about. Then you touch the area of your body that is in pain or discomfort with the fingers of either hand and say, "Whatever this is related to, I forgive it completely and it doesn't matter anymore.

I'm sorry," I said. I felt unbearably ashamed. "I'm sorry." "What for?" "For being a blind, self-satisfied ass. For not seeing . . .

Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.

That's the way it goes sometimes: in order to help your friends, first you have to help your enemy. Better get used to it.

Abandonar a la persona con la que se ha vivido una década puede ser tremendo, pero no menos tremendo es para el que ha sido abandonado pedirle a aquel con quien ha vivido una década que vuelva.

Por tanto, si tu hermano peca contra ti, ve y repréndele estando tú y él solos; si te oyere, has ganado a tu hermano" (Mateo 18:15 RV1960).

Así que, por cierto es ya una falta en vosotros que tengáis pleitos entre vosotros mismos. ¿Por qué no sufrís más bien el agravio? ¿Por qué no sufrís más bien el ser defraudados?" (1 de Corintios 6:7 RV1960).

A good writer should be able to communicate to the reader, 'I know your life. I know what you have truly experienced. It's not right or wrong. It's survival. It's making mistakes, and trying to redeem yourself. It's imperfections, and trying to make yourself better. It's outrages, and crimes, and insults, which often are not righted, which you have to fix yourself, in your own mind, in your own heart, so that you are not poisoned'.

True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything".