Quotes About Forgiveness

Pedir perdón no es una varita mágica que se agita y borra de golpe nuestros errores.

Tales son las trampas de la memoria, tal el peso de los pecados que no cometimos, pero que expiamos.

Es mucho más sencillo perdonar a otros por estar equivocados que por estar en lo cierto.

Luis Alfredo Garavito

yo no soy yo soy este que va a mi lado sin yo verlo; que, a veces, voy a ver, y que, a veces, olvido. El que calla, sereno, cuando hablo, el que perdona, dulce, cuando odio, el que pasea por donde no estoy, el que quedará en pié cuando yo muera.

I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am not, who will remain standing when I die.

El pasado siempre volvía, vivía en los recuerdos, en las pasiones mal tapadas por capas y capas de olvido.

I choose to suppress the initial categories I want to put people in - rich, poor, together, not together, druggie, yuppie, rocker, loser, winner, cool, uncool. I choose to remember that I don't know their struggle or their pain. I choose to err on the side of grace because someday I'll stand before God, and I pray He'll err on the side of grace with me.

Is that what you think this is about? Your letting me die? I don't know what clouds your judgement worse. Your guilt or your antiquated sense of morality. Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me. But why... Why on God's earth--??! Is he still alive!!??

but Robert was so much better than any of the other men Dougless had dated that she forgave him his little quirks—most

Someday every second you have spent hating will show on your face.

Will you give me another chance?" Robert repeated. Smiling, Dougless kissed him on the cheek. "No," she said, "although I thank you very much for the offer.

Yeah, I know. I was a jerk. An idiot. You can't say anything to me that I haven't already said to myself.

I can always forgive where I understand.

Stop telling her you're sorry- Judge Brady O'Callaghan to politician Melvin G. Slack in a September 1, 2022 protective order hearing, after Slack apologized repeatedly to Global Activist Greshun De Bouse concerning putting her in a chokehold

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them.

Of all human sins, the only one Anabel really found unforgivable was unkindness.

Like revenge, the fantasy of forgiveness often becomes a cruel torture, because it remains out of reach for most ordinary human beings. Folk wisdom recognizes that to forgive is divine. And even divine forgiveness, in most religious systems, is not unconditional. True forgiveness cannot be granted until the perpetrator has sought and earned it through confession, repentance, and restitution.

As dear Erasmus said, "It is part of the highest civility if, while never erring yourself, you ignore the errors of others." Besides, it is a law of nature that he who corrects others will soon do something perfectly awful himself. On

In the future, I hope you'll remember to think before you speak. You can't take back hurtful words after they've been spoken. Painful words can remain etched on a heart forever. They can do irreparable harm.

Some people feel love in their hearts, Julie. Some of us feel it all way into our souls. We're the ones who can't forget.

But faith often helps cushion the blow of our mistakes, and God is always there to help us pick up the pieces.

think His forgiveness is sometimes more painful than to be beaten and tortured.