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Quotes About Forgiveness

An unforgiving heart robs one of all the blessings of the Lord as well as health and answers to prayers. Why? You placed these people in the bondage of judgment through your words of condemnation
~ June Newman Davis
Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.
~ jung
Sadness at being caught, at the incontrovertibe knowledge that she will never forgive you.
~ Junot Diaz
Depois olhas para ela e sorris um sorriso que o teu rosto hipócrita irá recordar até ao fim dos teus dias. Querida, dizes, isto é apenas um capítulo do meu romance. É assim que a perdes.
~ Junot Diaz
In fact, I believe that, barring a couple of key moments, Beli never thought about that life again. Embraced the amnesia that was so common throughout the Islands, five parts denial, five parts negative hallucination. Embraced the power of the Untilles. And from it forged herself anew.
~ Junot Diaz
We hurt each other too well to let it drop
~ Junot Diaz
Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is.
~ Justin Cronin
Absolution is not the same as understanding.
~ Justin Cronin
But you can only hate somebody for so long." She
~ Justin Cronin
Well Connor thought ruefully At least now I know who to thank for my anger issues .
~ Justin Somper
Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.
~ Justina Chen
But she had a lot to think about, and only she could figure out what she wanted to do with this olive branch Dad was extending to her, whether she'd snap it like a twig or accept it and hope it'd flourish.
~ Justina Chen
Max smiled, the smile of comfort, the one you give to someone who's made a big mistake and is suffering the consequences, the one that doesn't help but shows you understand.
~ Justina Robson
Censure pardons the raven, but is visited upon the dove.
~ Juvenal
Peace visits not the guilty mind.
~ Juvenal
Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix)
~ Juvenal
My soul longs for God, but a man is not just his soul, is he? Terrible to say, my clay lusts after the clay of nubile girl. To soothe my guilt, and please forgive my indelicacy, I have convinced myself that I seek to find God again in their arms and their unmentionable places.
~ K.J. Bishop
Albo niczego nie mo?na wybaczy?, albo nie ma nic do wybaczania.
~ K.J. Bishop
When you get to my age, you'll find it's fatally easy to forget to hate all your enemies all the time; and once you've slipped up and not hated one of them, it makes it almost impossibly hard to hate the rest of them.
~ K.J. Parker
I figure a friend has the right to offend you at least once.
~ K.J. Parker
Mercy isn't fair, it means someone getting away with what he did because the Boss feels sorry for him. Justice is fair. Justice puts people in prison. Mercy lets them out again. Of course mercy isn't fair. It's breaking all the rules.
~ K.J. Parker
When we are broken like Jesus, we are able to forgive people, truly forgive them, and desire no revenge. A good example of this is found in the life of Joseph. When his brothers came to him desperate in the time of famine, he had every reason to turn them away and let them die. But he didn't. He said, "My brothers, don't be afraid, the Lord sent me here for you" (see Genesis 45:5).
~ K.P. Yohannan
KING (to Sakuntala): O fair lady! The tear drop that once stood trembling on your lower lip -and I watched uncaring, lost in delusion- while it still clings to your gently-curving lashes, I shall now wipe away, my beloved, to free myself of remorse.
~ K?lid?sa
etat k?tv? priyam an|ucita| pr?rthan?|vartmano me, sau|h?rd?d v? vidhura iti v? mayy anukro?a|buddhy? i???n de??n vicara, jala|da, pr?v??? sa?bh?ta|?r?r; m? bh?d eva? k?a?am api ca te vidyut? viprayoga?!
~ K?lid?sa