Quotes About Forgiveness

They did is sent me down Clearwater, Florida, and they said to me, Jessica, I need you to make Jim Bakker feel better.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon.

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

Now, you can bring up the past, but anybody can bring up the past. Even my daughter brings up the past sometimes. She makes a lot of jokes about the things that I've done.

Jokes about my surname aren't a big deal at all. In fact, that's what jokes are meant for - you laugh and then forget about it.

Inutile piangere sul latte versato. (No use crying over spilled milk.)

Maybe that's what happens with age, I thought. All your life you force yourself to forget people who have hurt you, but as you get older and weaker their memory surfaces again, like a bubble in the water. You have to surrender, because you feel to tired to fight it and push it down again. And maybe, unexpectedly, you find out that instead, of revamping your anger, those memories produce an unexpected sweetness.

It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.

There are some people who remain your best friends even if you haven't seen them for ages, and others with whom you start from scratch every time.

Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."

I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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