Quotes About Forgiveness

I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

We must not repeat the same mistakes, or commit the same cruelties that were done in the past.

The past is past. There is no point in repeating what you did in the past.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.

Bad men are full of repentance.

I think that it's the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn't be doing will go away.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.

Repentance comes from the heart.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

I reproach so many things about my family, but on the other hand, I kept asking them to be my family.

If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.

I never knowingly wanted to hurt anybody.

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.

I never wanted to hurt anyone else, most of all my family and my kids.

I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.

That was one of the most hurtful things, to have my mother see me in court and to have my mother see me behind bars.

In my past, I said and believed things that were wrong and - worse - hurtful to the LGBTQ+ community and their loved ones.