Quotes About Forgiveness

You can stay angry at someone who hurt you. Or you can get busy doing your visions and changing our world. But you don't get to do both.

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I'm a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you're supposed to be doing.

It seems to me scarcely possible that one who has so long lived in sin, who has resisted so much light and has so often grieved away the Holy Spirit, as I have, should again be visited with its heavenly influences. But I hope it is so.

When we think about a great movie, I mean, what do we think about? We think about story, we think about character. And when the visual effects aren't perfect, we forgive it.

When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.

We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.

If something really gave me immense happiness, I will remember it for the rest of my life in vivid detail. But if something bothered me, or I regretted it deeply, I will move ahead from it and forget.

I vividly remember throwing a bowl of porridge at my husband Rayne once when he defended the children instead of me - the patch on the ceiling stayed for years.

We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.

Axl did sometimes have volatile actions, but I knew that guy as a whole - all the good stuff, too.

No matter who you voted for, I do not hold anything against you.

The American public will give you an awful lot of slack on how you voted on one issue or another if they feel like you have a reason.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

There are no perfect politicians - just as there are no perfect pastors or voters. We are all sinners in need of a Savior.

You answer anger with love. You answer anger with selflessness. The answer to anger is always the opposite thing of anger.

If you really screw up, send roses.

Everybody that played a part in sending me to death row, you will answer to God.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. And I'm really sensitive, so I take even small mistakes as huge ones.

The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

People have pain - they do regrettable things, they feel shame, and shame equals pain.

The old saying goes, 'Hit me with a cast once, shame on me, hit me with a cast twice, you're a dead man.'

I'm the kind of person with a short-term memory. I like to let things go, to let them get back to normal.

I apologize for the song 'Everything Is Awesome.'