Quotes About Forgiveness

Regrets don't help anything, you know that.

Then you called me daughter. You called out your love." She went and knelt beside Yaltha's chair. "I cannot forget that you left me. That knowledge will always remain in a corner of me, but I wish to let myself be loved.

Enough, child. You've grieved enough. I understand he has abandoned you, but must you abandon yourself?

He learned well, and his suffering didn't harden him. It's always a marvel when one's pain doesn't settle into bitterness, but brings forth kindness instead.

Jesus's capacity for mercy baffled me. I didn't know if I could give up the wrongs my father had done, the way I hauled them around like an ossuary of precious old bones. Jesus made it seem as if one could just lay them down.

There was an incongruous peace in my helplessness, in the knowledge that what was done was done and could not be undone, and even if I could change it, I wouldn't.

Forgiveness was so much harder than being remorseful. I couldn't imagine the terrible surrender it would take

but now when I'm reviled, I try to look the other way. It does the world no good to return evil for evil. I try now to return good to them instead.

They are condemned as impure, but God is love. He would not be so cruel as to condemn them.

I understand he has abandoned you, but must you abandon yourself?

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others."21

It's always a marvel when one's pain doesn't settle into bitterness, but brings forth kindness instead.

There would be no grand absolution, only forgiveness meter out in these precious sips. I would well up from Hugh's heart in spoonfuls, and he would feed it to me. And it would be enough.

It's always a marvel when one's pain doesn't settle into bitterness, but brings forth kindness instead

But he was Jesus, and I was Ana. I wasn't ready to let go of my animosity toward Judas. I would do so in time, but right now it saved me. It left less room inside for pain.

Your goodness will not be forgotten, I told him. Not a single act of your love will be squandered. You've brought God's kingdom as you hoped-you've planted it in our hearts.

You don't have to feel love for her. Only try to act with love.

No one had avenged the unnamed concubine. Jacob did not seek vengeance on Shechem. King David did not punish his son.

It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.

an angry man can later become happy, a resentful man can become pleased, but a kingdom once destroyed can never be restored nor the dead brought back to life

You cannot repay evil with evil.

God loves us all. He does not love us more than he loves our enemies.

every man has a last choice after the first, a chance of forgiveness. It is not too late. Turn. Come to the Light.

The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.