Quotes About Forgiveness

She quirked a smile. "Does he beg your pardon so very often?" "Not nearly as much as he should.

May God forgive us for the times when we as individuals and as a Church failed to seek out and care for those little ones who were frightened, alone and in pain because someone was abusing them. That we did not always respond to your cries with the concern of the Good Shepherd is a matter of deep shame.

We're all going to make mistakes; they're inevitable. It's what you do after these mistakes that matters.

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.

We are all human and all make mistakes, sometimes we hurt the ones we love and inevitably, ourselves in the process.

Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.

I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always a reason.

The family I grew up in was very inflexible and harsh. It left me with the feeling that if you do let somebody down badly, then even if they tell you it's all right, it cannot be all right.

False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I've come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.

I did bully somebody. I was insecure.

I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.

Unless you insult my mother or something, there is not much you could say to me that would really bother me.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

I do not intend to prejudge the past.

I have no ill intent toward anyone.

So she's going to…to die?" Lock heard the break in his voice but he couldn't help it. Gods, to think they'd killed the woman they loved! Oh Kat, I'm sorry. So very sorry… From his twin he could feel similar emotions to his own. But Deep's sorrow was shaded with a guilt so intense it was almost despair. Again, Lock heard his twin thinking in a rare burst of mental empathy. I've done it again. Gods… "I

I don't hate you either," Kat said quietly. "I never could—which is what I was trying to tell you before we were interrupted in the viewing room." She stepped forward. "In fact, I…I love both of you. Very much." Tears stung her eyes as two sets of muscular arms enfolded her. "Kat, little Kat," she heard Deep murmur as Lock whispered, "My lady…" into her hair. "I've

We always pay for the sins of our past—remember that.

One of the things I'd always dreaded about relationships was that you could say something—one thing—and it would wreck everything forever. You'd never be forgiven, not in ten thousand years.

Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged? Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could find the joy that comes with committing to our own goodness? Perhaps we would stop dividing ourselves into malignancies of various forms.

Wouldn't it be incredible if everyone could be purged, somehow, of the projected not-them badness that they internalized and perhaps have acted out because their souls have been so damaged?

To understand all is to forgive all.

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.