Quotes About Forgiveness

It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity.

People don't notice your mistakes as much as you think.

it takes at least five good acts to repair the damage of one critical or destructive act.

Ne pleure pas ! lui dit-elle. Bientôt je ne te tourmenterai plus ! – Pourquoi ? Qui t'a forcée ? Elle répliqua : – Il le fallait, mon ami. – N'étais-tu pas heureuse ? Est-ce ma faute ? J'ai fait tout ce que j'ai pu pourtant ! – Oui…, c'est vrai…, tu es bon, toi !

Y haciéndole sentar al borde del lecho, empezaba a hablarle de sus penas. El la olvidaba... Amaba a otra... Ya le habíand dicho que sería desgraciada. Y acababa pidiéndole algún jarabe para su salud y un poco más de amor.

Pobrecilla chica! —pensó enternecido—. Va a creerse más insensible que una roca; habrían hecho falta aquí unas lágrimas; pero no puedo llorar; no es mía la culpa.» Y echando agua en un vaso, Rodolfo mojó en ella su dedo y dejó caer desde arriba una gruesa gota, que hizo una mancha pálida sobre la tinta; después, tratando de cerrar la carta, encontró el sello Amor nel cor.

Monsieur, beware of love! It is lying in ambush everywhere; it is watching for you at every corner; all its snares are laid, all its weapons are sharpened, all its guiles are prepared! Beware of love! Beware of love! It is more dangerous than brandy, bronchitis or pleurisy! It never forgives and makes everybody commit irreparable follies.

Il ne faut pas que tu me pardonnes - rien ne fait plus mal qu'un pardon - mais que tu ne m'en veuilles pas de ce que j'ai fait.

What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn't happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.

We aren't the best men, but Lord, have pity on us," Henríquez begins. It's a simple statement, but it strikes several of the men hard.

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

If heaven is merciful, it will some day efface from my consciousness the sight that I saw, and let me live my last years in peace.

Bellek baz? an?lar? unutmakla, bazen çok merhamet gösterir.

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

Adesso sono ai tuoi piedi, niente più ardore nel mio cuore, le ali spezzate, la bocca che schiuma un rimpianto parole troppo confuse per avere un senso. Questo voglio dirti: Amore, sono tornato a casa

Sin - sin is God's most precious gift.

But the good sister received them most kindly, and promised to take care of them and give them all they wanted. And then they did indeed repent and feel sorry for having treated her so badly in their youthful days.

Then she spoke with Yolanda, her eldest child, with whom she'd been shopping all afternoon for an Easter dress. Mommy, I'm not going to cry, Yoki said resolutely. I'll see him again in heaven. But something was bothering her, something clearly nagged at her young conscience. Should I hate the man who killed my father? she asked. Coretta shook her head. No, darling, your daddy wouldn't want you to do that.

This same strain of transcendent "love-your-enemies" thinking guided Young, Abernathy, and the others as they began to contemplate their leader's death. As Young put it, "We aren't so much concerned with who killed Martin, as with what killed him." It

The questions had become: What can we forgive in others? How far do they have to go before we lose faith in them?

Suicide is one way of saying you're sorry.

Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer's apprentice who lacked the formula to break the spell.

The only antidote to the irreversibility of history is the faculty of forgiveness.

Action is, in fact, the one miracle-working faculty of man, as Jesus of Nazareth, whose insights into this faculty can be compared in their originality and unprecedentedness with Socrates' insights into the possibilities of thought, must have known very well when he likened the power to forgive to the more general power of performing miracles, putting both on the same level and within the reach of man.