Quotes About Forgiveness

You who I called brother How could you have come to hate me so? Is this what you wanted? I send the swarm, I send the horde Then let my heart be hardened And never mind how high the cost may grow This will still be so I will never let your people go

El hermoso viaje de hoy sólo puede comenzar cuando aprendemos a dejar ir el ayer. STEVE MARABOLI, INVESTIGADOR

Will ye be there for him in his time of need, or do you prefer to take your anger with you to the grave?

Let us forget the past - this is the only way to be genuinely surprised.

Let the past bury its dead.  Easier said than done.

Anger caused mistakes.

Lincoln was right. Do I not destroy my enemy when I make them my friend?

Never hate your enemy. That clouded judgment.

the eternal salvation of those who took their own lives was not lost completely. The Church taught that, by ways known only to God, an opportunity for repentance would be provided.

forgiveness, of course, coming only from one source. The church.

The only people who get better are people who know that, if they never get better, God will love them anyway.

The anger of Jesus was never directed at those who were great sinners, but at those who seemed not to be.

I find myself laughing a lot. Every time I remember that I'm forgiven and loved (that I have unlimited free sins and blank checks), I get the giggles. In fact, Christians are the only people on earth who have something significant to laugh about.

Forgiveness is at the very heart of the Christian faith. It's not about getting better, becoming more religious, or following the rules so God will love you. It's all about forgiveness, dummy! Everything else is secondary. If we don't keep the main thing the main thing, then everything else will turn sour on us.

God will not only love you if you don't get better; he will teach you that getting better isn't the issue. His love is the issue.

It's a lot easier to patch things up with somebody when he doesn't even know you were pissed off at him in the first place.

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

Most of the women he has met have been good women, and he has been unkind to all of them.

He who angers you conquers you. —Elizabeth Kenny

In explaining any human shortcoming, the first tool I reach for is Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

The Perpetrator's Narrative: The story begins with the harmful act. At the time I had good reasons for doing it. Perhaps I was responding to an immediate provocation. Or I was just reacting to the situation in a way that any reasonable person would. I had a perfect right to do what I did, and it's unfair to blame me for it. The harm was minor, and easily repaired, and I apologized. It's time to get over it, put it behind us, let bygones be bygones. The

Anyone who grew up with Holocaust survivors knows what they had to overcome to tell their stories. For decades after the war they treated their experiences as shameful secrets. On top of the ignominy of victimhood, the desperate straits to which they were reduced could remove the last traces of their humanity in ways they could be forgiven for wanting to forget.

The goal of the judicial system should be to rehabilitate wrongdoers rather than harming them

In Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct, the psychologist Michael McCullough shows that we do have this dimmer switch for revenge.