Quotes About Forgiveness

a thousand good intentions could never tip the scale over one unforgivable mistake.

You'd better clean up your own backyard before you start talkin' trash." Because I would bet money—and I'm not a betting person—that each one of those women has something in their closets they'd rather not air. Everybody does. Especially those who are always eager to cast the first stone.

Weeds could be pulled and new seeds planted, hardened soil tilled and watered to make a fertile bed. Water could be piped in to make an old fountain cascade for the first time. Perhaps my relationship with my mother could be tended in the same way, with care and patience used to rebuild the bedrock of a mother-child bond that had been broken nearly thirty-three years before.

You were never a disaster. Ever. It seems to me that the more we try to dissect our pasts, the more we try to go back and relive them. Trust me, it's more important to pick up the pieces and move forward and live our lives the best way we can. I've never been a fan of leftovers.

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

Psychoanalysts are father confessors who like to listen to the sins of the father as well.

Es gibt Menschen, die es zeitlebens einem Bettler nachtragen, daß sie ihm nichts gegeben haben.

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

At no point in his cramming for his upcoming confrontation with Gemma did the words "I'm sorry" cross his mind.

Like ashes, grey and tarnished, My sins are sifting down: I'll have a heart fire-burnished To carry back to town!

In this life, many things happen in which we play a shameful part. Those of us who are strong forgive ourselves and go on. The weak wallow in their shame and allow it to devour them. There is no one of us without sin, child. There ought to be some comfort in that.

The first is about forgiveness. It is never done well in little bits and dabs. Do it all at once and never look back, or do not do it at all.

What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive.

Society, with all its strictness is sometimes kind-hearted: depending on the circumstances, it looks with such Christian forgiveness upon powerful people, upon prominent and wealthy women! And besides, in the aristocratic educated world, everything is angled so smoothly, the sharp edges so blunted, and each monstrous and rotten affair called by such decent language that every shameful thing is glossed over in such fine circumstances, effortlessly and quietly.

To everyone who's ever second-guessed a decision they've made, our past makes us who we are. Have no regrets.

If you're going to remember anything from your past, then do so fondly because you can't change a thing about it.

Maggie was crying hard and I rubbed her back. I couldn't stop looking at my dad. "Me, you, Lester, Lucy. We're all good people who have done stupid things. We have to look out for one another, Maggie. Rescue each other even," he said. "You know how to do that better than anyone.

With honesty, what hurts at the moment won't hurt for a lifetime.

Birthdays should come every day. Especially when you missed so many as a kid.

I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.

It is in the ruins of this darkness that we absolve the ones who love us badly.

I had to say it gave me a warm feeling to picture Meredith Winslow spending twenty years or so in an ill fitting orange jumpsuit, cozying up to a great big girl named Beulah

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.