Quotes About Forgiveness

Only by God's mercy and grace. We aren't worthy, we're all sinners, but we are because of Jesus dying for us.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.

Imagine for a moment the result if everyone were to love one another as Jesus loves his disciples. We would have no bickering, quarreling, strife, or contention in our homes. We would not offend or insult one another either verbally or in any other way. We would not have unnecessary litigation over small matters.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

If I could reach down in my heart, I would say I'm sorry for every unkind word and thought I ever had.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

It will take 150 years or seven generations to heal the wound of the residential school.

Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.

People wonder why a man and woman can't be friends after being in love. It is because it's very tough to look beyond the hurt and try to find a common ground to be friends. It's it like a healing wound.

Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that's as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all - humanity was wounded by the genocide.

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

We have to heal so many open wounds in our homeland.

Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don't think you should do that.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.

I'm not angry with Axl anymore. I love him and I feel blessed that I got to work with him and achieve what I achieved with him. I guess time does heal all wounds.

After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people did something evil. Until we do, wounds won't heal.

Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.