Quotes About Forgiveness

Because your heart, by loving fancies blinded, Has scorned a guest in pious life grown old, Your lover shall forget you though reminded, Or think of you as of a story told.

Water says to the dirty, "Come here" The dirty one says, "I am so ashamed". Water says, "How will your shame be washed away without me?" Rumi, Mathnawi II: 1366-67

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

If we were scars, our memories would be the stitches holding us together. You couldn't cut them apart, and if you did, it would tear you in two." "But my memories hurt," she said. "I want to forget. There's so much I just want to forget." "How are you going to do that ? Everything that's happened to you is still happening today. Once something has begun, it doesn't end. There, in your head, it never ends.

Wir hätten Freunde werden können, aber du weißt, wie es mit Freundschaften gehen kann. Enttäuscht der eine den anderen, können sie schnell in Hass umschlagen, viel schneller als gewöhnliche Bekannschaften. Wir neigen dazu, einem Menschen, den wir schätzen, einen Fehltritt viel ärger anzurechnen als einem Unbekannten.

Never mistake Kindness for Weakness. When it is natural to beat the h*ll out of someone for the wrong they've done to you but you turn the other cheek, that takes strength. - Strong by Kailin Gow

i have sung for you, he said, his voice cracking with pain. but who will sing for me? the woman i love... she is where you are now. If you meet her on the road to heaven, tell her that i love her. tell her that i'm waiting for her, and that i want nothing more than to cross that gorge scross which i have sent you , and to see her shade for myself! if she will forgive me for having failed her- having failed out peave!

I do pray for those who wish me evil. This is the prayer: As you said in Psalm 79:12 'And render unto our neighbors SEVENFOLD into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.' Let all their evil against me be brought SEVENFOLD back to the sender, according to the Bible. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.' - STRONG by Kailin Gow

Jesus condemned no one except hypocrites.

We do not have any genuine knowledge of those whom we hate.

Be a forgiver creature not a revenge taker because contentness from forgiving someone is more persuasive than hatred.

When the war's over, I'll be kind.

Aneeka must learn to think of him as lost forever. It was possible to do this with someone you loved, Isma had learned that early on. But you could learn it only if there was a complete vacuum where the other person had been.

I'm acting a little crazy, aren't I?" she said. "I'm sorry. Please bear with me. Please." She rested the back of her hand against his cheek, a touch he'd never had from her before

thought firing Abu Bakr would have taught you a lesson about lying, conniving and implicating other people in your crimes,' he said. 'I'm amazed Zahra's parents haven't banished you from her life.

Time heals all wounds, but the scars remain forever

Read between the lines: she healed killers of their guilt.

All is one. Don't let me forget this, don't let the bastards divide me again. Our tragedy is fragmentation. It begins as a state of mind and ends up as destiny. It is the tragedy of our family of nations who hobble across this great peninsula, this exquisitely set Earth, like an army of blind soldiers a thousand years old looking for a place to rest. Let them rest. Forgive them, forgive me, forgive us. Our fear drove us insane and melancholy.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Frank, as he preferred to be called, always believed that God was with him, protecting him even during—perhaps especially during—his transgressions.

I think part of real intimacy is being able to leave the room mad, and knowing that the other person will be there when you get back.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

I don't think the majority of people - to be quite honest - care. I think they see me as someone who was at one stage of my life in the IRA, but they see me in the round, as someone who was able to make peace.