Quotes About Forgiveness

I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now.

There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's.

there are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only being able to make your own choices, and no one else's.

I have knots in my years that I can`t undo, and this is one of the worst--the night I did wrong and Mauma got caught

When someone apologizes, it's amazing how much fresh air enters the room.

Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours. Who would we be if we could not sympathize with those who are not us or ours? Who would we be if we could not forget ourselves, at least some of the time? Who would we be if we could not learn? Forgive? Become something other than we are?

Therefore, what I had been taught to fear I now embraced. Betrayal- his or mine, it didn't matter- freed me.

The heaviness of forgiveness descended the moment after I wrote the words.

The best way to keep from stumbling over the past was to move forward

a broken heart doesn't care how the love got lost.

Forgiveness was such a simple thing, she thought, once you surrendered to it.

It's not for me to judge what a person did in her past. That belongs to her and her alone." "You give people a lot of grace, Jerome. It's really nice." "Everyone has a past. It's who you are right now that matters.

Questions swelled inside her, tangling with questions that would never be answered. The trouble with being angry with a dead person, she reflected, was that you could never sit down with her, talk things out, get an explanation, make amends.

we can move past our history, but we can never truly erase it.

Bitterness does not pay. Certain things have happened to all of us in the past and it is for us to forget those and to look to the future.

I felt a surge of anger and for a moment I thought I would not tell him what I knew. But then I thought that it was unkind to punish him for something he cannot help. It is not his fault that he does not see things the way I do.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Ever keep in exercise the principle of mercy, and be ready to forgive our brother on the first intimations of repentance, and asking forgiveness; and should we even forgive our brother, or even our enemy, before he repent or ask forgiveness, our heavenly Father would be equally as merciful unto us.

Easier by far, thought Ambassador Spock, to get forgiveness than permission. Humans might have invented that saying, but its applications were universal. The

Okay.' She could tell the anger was still on him, and she was glad. It made her feel slightly compensated for his treachery. When a short time later

Alla fine tutto andò come va sempre. E, come succede sempre, col tempo la gente dimenticò, anche se dimenticare è un processo elettivo.

Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.

Then when our sniper steps to a window In the brain, starts shooting, and we fall surprised, Of what we know not do we seek forgiveness From ourselves, for ourselves?