Quotes About Forgiveness

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There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.

Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

There is nothing more critical than to exercise the generosity to let something end with the grace it started with.

I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

Do I not effectually destroy my enemies, in making them my friends?

CLOSE YOUR EYES AND THINK THE ONE WHO LEFT YOU AND THE WORLD IN EACH MOMENT. IT COST NOTHING TO BE NICE."

And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.

Are you so arrogant that you think yourself capable of sinning so badly that God's mercy is not great enough? . . .

I'm not as good a man as you are. I can't so easily forgive those I have wronged.

Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart

When he was nearly thirty-six, my brother Jem got his heart badly broken when his fourth marriage fell apart, mostly because his wife never could get used to Boo, who lived with them and creeped her out by making little wooden dolls of her and putting them in the hollow tree out front.

Forgiveness is the easiest thing in the world, Justin thinks. All you do is just decide to do it, and then it's done. Instantly you feel better, like pushing aside a quilt that is too heavy for sleeping. Forgetting is the hard part.

Learn how to forgive others, including yourself.

Ir gr?ti k?du visu m?žu ien?st, un tad piepeši... nek?, vairs piln?gi nek?.

One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime's disappointments.

I write in order to forget scorn, in order not to forget, in order not to hate, from hate, from love, from memory, and so as not to die.

En mi corazón ¿predominaba la ira o el remordimiento? La ira convertida en resentimiento se volvía más incómoda; el remordimiento convertido en asombro, más llevadero.

But it was too late. I was down the steps and out the door, where the warm night air almost felt like forgiveness.

Sometimes you do things to yourself so bad that the memories have barbs and never let you go.

Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.

I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.

The key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth