Quotes About Forgiveness

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.

Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don't often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we're likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all.

In this way my mother fell short as a parent, which was something I had to learn to accept because it's how she was, and either you accept people as they are or you turn your back on them and walk away. Those are the choices: forbearance or flight, although that philosophy was slow in coming to me, and for many years, I expected more from people than they could give.

I think the love between a child and parent is wonderful. You know, Mei... I haven't seen my mother for over two years. I used to live with her... but now I live with my father. I used to be sad and wonder why it happened... but parents have a lot of things they have to deal with too. I saw how they were suffering... and I know they both love me a lot. You can't let loneliness harden your heart. Mei, you know... Misuzu loves you, don't you?

Ranmaru: I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! Everything... Is my fault . Goda: Is it your fault... the Earth is round and the sky is blue... and my hair is wavy?

Although the troops have struck us, we throw it all behind and are glad to meet you in peace and friendship.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

When you're young, you're more prone to overlook friends' faults and forgive their weaknesses because you know you're all still cooking and nobody's done.

He got down on one knee and begged Nikky's forgiveness while everyone in the office gathered around laughing and clapping—it was so cute—and really, you know, that's what it took with Nikky! My own hands clapped mechanically, but I thought What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck . . . this, again, directed at me rather than them. I

Repeatedly Yates went berserk—raging over grievances old and new, hurling furniture at phantoms out of his past. The nurses who lived upstairs complained about the racket to the landlady, an eccentric woman who adored Yates and did nothing.

Cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from ye door.

Forgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.

I never thought I'd die alone. Another six months I'll be unknown. Give all my things to all my friends. You'll never set foot in my room again. You'll close it off, board it up. Remember the time that I spilled the cup of apple juice in the hall? Please tell mom this is not her fault.

We must come to the biblical conviction that the forgiveness of our sins is not just some "heavenly bookkeeping" that will enable us to slip into heaven some day; God's forgiveness is a present reality that enables us to concentrate on walking daily with a loving and accepting God who desires to live through us.

Until you rest in the finality of the cross, you will

I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.

Halftime is not about beating yourself up for what you did not do, but for coming to terms with your failures and recognizing that you live under grace.

All of us have the potential to be an Absalom, and all of us have the potential to be a David. Absalom felt rejected by his father, David, so he took revenge by seeking to usurp his father's sphere of authority. David felt rejected by Absalom, but he allowed that rejection to keep him soft and crying out to God.

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

I believe that fact had been haunting Danny for all these years. But now he could change all that. He could right a wrong and rewrite history, for in his film not only he but also the entire cast of Taxi would be at Andy's funeral.

One reason to fashion a story is to lift a grudge.

Nebesa nejsou humánní, ale je asi nÄ›co víc než tato nebesa, soucit a láska, na kterou už jsem zapomenul a zapomnÄ›l.

The heavens are not humane, but I'd forgotten compassion and love.