Quotes About Forgiveness

Only those who are forgiven and who are willing to forgive will be capable of relentlessly pursuing justice without falling into the temptations to pervert it into injustice" (Exclusion and Embrace, 123).

There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

Happy ending After they had not made love she pulled the sheet up over her eyes until he was buttoning his shirt: not shyness for their bodies - those they had willingly displayed - but a frail endeavour to apologise. Later, though, drawn together by a distaste for such 'untidy ends' they agreed to meet again; whereupon they giggled, reminisced, held hands as though what they had made was love - and not that happier outcome, friends.

to make up in an hour for all their wasted yesterdays.

To my thinking, offence has no possible place in genuine friendship. The one pained always forestalls offence by the realization of non-intention to wound on the part of the other.

Bless your enemy, and you rob him of his ammunition." His arrows will be transmuted into blessings.

Christianity is founded upon the law of forgiveness - Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Karmic law, and the Christ within each man is his Redeemer and Salvation from all inharmonious conditions.

But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which spitefully use you and persecute you.

Oh God don't let me hate that man.

She replied: "I have been living with a woman who lied worse than I did!" One is often cured of his faults by seeing them in others. Life is a mirror, and we find only ourselves reflected in our associates. Living in the past is a failure method and a violation of spiritual law.

Sorrow, regret and remorse tear down the cells of the body, and poison the atmosphere of the individual.

Ojo por ojo, y el mundo quedará ciego. MAHATMA GANDHI.

Terminé por aceptar esos recuerdos, tratar de espantarlos me desgarraba inútilmente. Siempre estarían ahí, nunca abandonarían.

Hate me as much as you can, if that will make you feel good, I was raised up to love people.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.

Do not forget that God forgives all, and God forgives always. Let us never tire of asking forgiveness. Homily, March 13, 2015 Lord,

Mercy will always be greater than any sin, and no one can place limits on the love of God who is ever ready to forgive.

Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

But pray God that he absolve us all!

On peut mourir de faim ou de froid, mais si l'on en réchappe, on oublie son mal. Quand on n'aurait souffert qu'un seul jour de la honte, on en meurt toute sa vie.

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

But Wine doesn't make anything go away! When you bury a big memory it's always still there, like an itch right down inside your bones where you can't scratch it, or somebody walking a step behind you that you can't look at. And . . . and if we didn't remember things we wish we hadn't done, wouldn't we just run off and do them again?

I left you clean. Purged of all your ghosts. I am the one who has been haunted all my life. Haunted by you.