Quotes About Forgiveness

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

Certain things, examined in the frozen light of retrospect, were simply unforgivable. He

We were forgiving each other for who we were, for how we came into this world, for how we changed or didn't change for each other.

Years of alcohol can do that to a person, make him dead but not departed, make him indelible to those who have had the misfortune of sharing his name.

There is no forgiveness in ancestor worship, only retribution and eternal debt.

The church is not a museum for saints but a hospital for sinners.

F]ew people have never hurt anyone or been guilty of any serious lapse [...]

If someone has hurt you, lied about and vilified you, and has said all manner of evil about you, is your thought of that person negative? If so, you have not yet forgiven. The roots of hatred are still in your subconscious mind, playing havoc with you and your good. The only way to wither those roots is with love. Wish for the person all the blessings of life. This is the meaning of Forgive until seventy times seven.

The bigger the sin, the rarer and more expensive the bird that is needed to erase it. Is that how the bird pardoner conducts his business? A sparrow for a small deception, but a paradise flycatcher and a monal pheasant for allowing a doubt about His existence to enter the mind.

Not even God can change the past.

The forgiveness of the weak is the air you strong ones breath, David. Didn't you know? You don't see it but you felt it just then. They allow you to go on living.

I want you to know that even though Ron forgave me, it does not mean that he forgot what I did. His forgiveness was a gift that I did not deserve or earn. However, I did need to earn his trust.

The plan for your marriage. You two are going to have to figure out why your marriage fell apart ... how to fix it ... how to make sure it doesn't happen again.

When you tell someone you're sorry, it's very different from asking for their forgiveness. Your 'sorry-ness' is your decision. But when you ask someone to forgive you, that's their decision. That's why people avoid asking forgiveness. It gives all the power to the other person.

when you forgive someone, you make a choice ... to banish the offense from your mind and your heart. Jesus said that after He forgives us, our sins are as far away as the East is from the West. In other words, they're pardoned. Not because we're not guilty, but because we are. Our pardon is undeserved ... it's a gift to us from God. If

I decided to forgive you after reading The Little Flowers of Saint Francis," María began. "You remember the wolf I talked about? Well, he was a monster who terrorized everybody until Saint Francis gave him a talking-to. He was sweet as a lamb and never ate anything but vegetables after that." "I didn't know wolves could digest vegetables," said Matt, who had studied biology. "That's not the point.

You must not be hurt by other people's ignorance.

I remember too much. But don't worry, Don Sombra. People like me have an infinite ability to forgive themselves.

Whoever thinks that in high personages new benefits cause old offences to be forgotten, makes a great mistake.

When we as God's children realize that His grace is sufficient for every situation, at that point we are no longer victims. We are free to rise above and move on beyond whatever may have been done to us, to release those who have wronged us, and to become instruments of grace, reconciliation, and redemption in the lives of other hurting people—even in the lives of our offenders.

Everything in your spiritual life depends on the sort of God you worship. Because the character of the worshiper will always be molded by the character of what he worships: If it is a cruel and revengeful God, the worshiper will be the same, but if it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be transformed slowly, wonderfully, into this likeness.1

I can't change the past so why does it still bother me? -Malledy

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain. —JAMES BALDWIN Notes of a Native Son, 1955

I had hated him, but I wouldn't have reproached him, any more than I would have reproached a bolt of lightning for striking my house. He wasn't a person . . .