Quotes About Forgiveness

I'm going to make mistakes. I'm going to say things I may not understand have hurtful impact on people. I always call people to call me in, to educate me. And to love me enough and to see my contributions in a way that, when I become better, our country becomes better.

I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.

I'm not resigning, and I'm going to try very hard to go back to work a better man and a better husband too.

My faith tradition is love your enemies. It's not complicated for me, if I aspire to be who I say I am. I am a Christian American. Literally written in the ideals of my faith is to love those who hate you. I don't see why that's so shocking.

When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

'A Long Way Gone' says something about human nature that we try, most of the time, to ignore.

I don't wish ill will on anybody.

I don't believe in harbouring ill feelings about anyone.

I have no ill will in my heart against anybody in this world.

I have no ill will about anything.

I don't like to hold grudges, I don't like to talk ill of people.

There's no ill will on my end for anybody within the Boston organization or players.

I have a mother back there in Illinois who is old and feeble. I haven't seen her this many a year and haven't been a good son to her, yet I love her better than anything in this life.

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

The person I love most is the Dalai Lama. China destroyed his country, yet he says that it's imperative we show love for the Chinese.

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections.

I started writing music in a season of my life where people were telling me I wasn't defined by mistakes, and God really loved me and was fighting for me, and there was a journey to be had with that. And I don't know of a more important message.

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them.

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.