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Quotes About Forgiveness

Should you ever outrun the guilt within your past, Sorceress, you will have outrun your soul. When it finds you again, it will kill you.
~ Steven Erikson
Damaged children know only despair. When they are grown into adults, that despair lies at the core of all that they do. It shapes their lives. It makes monsters of men and women who in turn perpetuate the cycle of despair with all the victims within their reach. Often, those victims are their own children.' She turned to look up at Kolo. 'This must be forgiven. All must be forgiven. To live the life of a victim is to be trapped inside despair, and no soul deserves that.
~ Steven Erikson
this was how young boys made amends. Without words, with spare gestures that, in their rarity, acquired all the necessary significance.
~ Steven Erikson
Only a soul that has surrendered utterly gives up on notions of redemption.
~ Steven Erikson
Who was Harllo? The man walked to his horse and swung himself into the saddle. He collected the reins. 'I'm not sure,' he said after a moment's consideration. 'The way it started, well, it seemed . . .' he hesitated, and then said, 'he was a boy nobody loved.
~ Steven Erikson
Ah, my love. Forgive me.' He set out, boots crunching on the dead. Returned to the world. Draconus.
~ Steven Erikson
Ask not the hero about heroism Forgive the unwillingness To lock gazes while you search For what cannot be explained
~ Steven Erikson
Dying left no details behind, after all. And most certainly, nothing like absolution awaited the fallen. Absolution comes from the living, not the dead, and, as Hedge well knew, it has to be earned
~ Steven Erikson
Jesus was guilty of nothing. Yet on the cross, the Father treated Him as if He had committed personally every sin ever committed by every individual who would ever believe. Though He was blameless, He faced the full fury of God's wrath, enduring the penalty of sin on behalf of those He came to save. In this way, the sinless Son of God became the perfect substitute for the sinful sons of men.
~ Steven J. Lawson
God dances with the outcast.
~ Steven James
Stop feeding your pain and it'll dissipate.
~ Steven James
If you don't find forgiveness, you'll never end up with peace,
~ Steven James
Life is for living, for moving on, for letting the past lie behind us.
~ Steven James
My dad was still living when I died. I hope he ends up in a nice Hell. A
~ Steven L. Peck
Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty.
~ Steven Lawson
An apology is a simple thing. A few easy words which we hope will correct for our regrettable actions. If accepted, however, an apology is of little worth. It indicates a momentary change of heart. Though not always a lasting one.
~ Steven T. Seagle
God of compassion, you suffer in the grief of your people, and you are present to heal and forgive. May the sun of your justice rise on every night of oppression, and may the warm rays of your healing love renew each troubled mind; for you are the God of salvation and new life, made known to us in Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
~ Steven W. Manskar
he said that it was better to cry for love than for fear, but best of all for repentance.
~ Stevie Smith
I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily explain: it wasn't her mother or Kersey she'd disowned, but her earlier self, that strange, ungrateful girl who strove to be first at everything and threw tantrums when she failed.
~ Stewart O'Nan
Herr domare, gör med mej vad ni vill! Giljotinera mej, utsätt mej för skärseldens gröna, röda och violetta plågor gör mej till hund – men förskona mej från en sak! Förvandla mej inte till domare! Bara inte domare.
~ Stig Dagerman
But so uncaring is life against the man who has killed a child that everything after is too late.
~ Stig Dagerman
Part of Owen lives inside him, because he had stolen it. Only by giving it back could Owen be restored, but Shem was physically incapable of achieving that at present. He had forgotten how to give.
~ Storm Constantine
So I get a second chance?" "You haven't used up the first one yet.
~ Storm Constantine
At one time, he had been prepared to sacrifice the boy, but Daniel believed the reality of Shemyaza, as an ideal, and had forgiven him for the deeds of Peveral Othman.
~ Storm Constantine