Quotes About Forgiveness

I have made mistakes in the past, but when I have, I have always said so.

You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Moreover, true repentance never exists except in conjunction with faith, while on the other hand, wherever there is true faith, there is also real repentance. The two are but different aspects of the same turning--a turning away from sin in the direction of God.

It was she who stated that compassion was the best part of wisdom.

You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.

I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to be good to me again, to forgive me and love me. Sometimes I had the feeling that she hurt herself when she turned cold and rigid. As if what she was yearning for was the warmth of my apologies, protestations, and entreaties. Sometimes I thought she just bullied me. But either way, I had no choice.

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.

Anger eats up years faster than happiness, chile. You better get on with your living and forget 'bout that hurt.

Almost eight years, and Edison had only slipped and called her a nigger once. She'd been in no hurry to forgive him for it, but he'd apologized profusely—and had cried and played Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" over and over again on his piano before she let him back into their bedroom.

Baby, everybody got their own reasons for doing things they do in life. It don't matter what her reason was at the time, what matters is she come back for you, and even though you might think it's too late, it ain't never too late where a mother and her child is concerned.

The motives for sitting up nights on end with the dying are often dubious. A repentant son who never visited his mother more than once a year now takes the opportunity to punish himself for his neglect by not stirring from her side for nights on end, though the poor woman is hardly there any longer in her dying body. For just as at birth we die head first.

Bear no malice for the ones who leave you.

you can apologize, but don't ever be sorry!

Alas, weWho wished to lay the foundations of kindness,Could not ourselves be kind.But you, when at last it comes to passThat man can help his fellow man,Do not judge usToo harshly.

Ich wäre gerne auch weise In den alten Büchern steht, was weise ist: Sich aus dem Streit der Welt halten und die kurze Zeit Ohne Furcht verbringen Auch ohne Gewalt auskommen Böses mit Gutem vergelten Seine Wünsche nicht erfüllen, sondern vergessen Gilt für weise. Alles das kann ich nicht.

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.