Quotes About Forgiveness

But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan.

I was still in love with her. And I always would be. I just wanted to live long enough to correct my mistakes and redeem myself in her eyes, if I could.

as long as we were both still alive, there was a chance I could make things right with her.

2 AM. Es la hora del Oficio Nocturno, y la iglesia en penumbra parece que está llena de demonios. Ésta es la hora de las tinieblas y de las fiestas. La hora de mis parrandas. Y regresa mi pasado. "Y mi pecado está siempre delante de mí.

la crucifixión (amarrado a la cruz) y una vez, estando en la cruz, se le cayó a Jesús el trapo que lo cubría y quedó desnudo en pelota

Il rimorso non tormenta chi l'ha fatta franca

Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.

I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up.

But then, gradually, miraculously, things began to clear between us. We were able to speak as we'd once done, with great love and little calculation.

There is no once and for all moment when we can say that at last we are whole, the past is buried and over, the hurts forgotten, the wounds healed. Instead we find that it is to be a search that we must expect to continue throughout our lives.

What feels like love, is—and what feels like hate is not love.

It is good to get out of the mode of blaming, because that get s you nowhere, and into the mode of acknowledging that every step of the way, you did the best that you knew to do. Abraham -- G 6/7/91

One who does not condemn, never has to forgive. Your Inner Being will never forgive you because your Inner Being has never condemned you. Abraham -- G 6/13/92

My beloved grandson, I thank the gods for the joy of seeing your face again before I die. I wish with all my heart that you'd come back to us sooner." Argus smiled, but made no move to approach his grandfather. "You'll have to forgive me for staying away so long, Lord Aetes. As dearly as I love you, the idea of being put to death on my return to Aea kept me away. It's a trivial thing, the fear of losing one's life, but it means a lot to me.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

Riassumendo vorrei in realtà dire: la barbarie nazista fa sorgere in noi un'identica barbarie che procederebbe con gli stessi metodi, se noi avessimo la possibilità di agire oggi come vorremmo. Dobbiamo respingere interiormente questa inciviltà, non possiamo coltivare in noi quell'odio perché altrimenti il mondo non uscirà di un solo passo dalla melma.

Se anche non rimanesse che un solo tedesco decente, quest'unico tedesco meriterebbe di essere difeso contro quella banda di barbari, e grazie a lui non si avrebbe il diritto di riversare il proprio odio su un popolo intero. […] L'odio indiscriminato è una malattia dell'anima, odiare non è nel mio carattere.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

Trust, like Christ-like love, is to be extended not because others deserve it but because they need it, because they can become trustworthy (or loving) by being nurtured in a community of trust and love. We need to extend trust, even if doing so makes us vulnerable to pain and great cost, in order to save our own souls.

Every congregation is a congregation of sinners. As if that weren't bad enough, they all have sinners for pastors.

The truth of God explained their lives, the grace of God fulfilled their lives, the forgiveness of God renewed their lives, the love of God blessed their lives.

I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.

Thomas Merton wrote, "it is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not 'what he ought to be.' If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we will do away with him altogether."50