Quotes About Forgiveness

As lembranças são piores do que as balas

Con el tiempo, incluso los malos recuerdos se disfrazan de blanco

El pasado no desaparece, por mucho que se esfuercen los necios en olvidarlo y los embaucadores en falsificarlo para venderlo otra vez como si fuera nuevo.

We quarreled, he said. Things were said that shouldn't have been said on both sides...

Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas para las cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armario para que sean incapaces de rehacer los pasos perdidos.

Las palabras con que se envenena el corazón de un hijo, por mezquindad o por ignorancia, se quedan enquistadas en la memoria y tarde o temprano le queman el alma. Pg.200

Usted no cree que nadie la pueda querer porque no se quiere a sí misma y piensa que nunca nadie la ha querido. Y que no se lo perdona al mundo.

A man didn't make mistakes. He made choices. Bad once stayed with him for a long time, but with a little luck and a lot of hard work, hopefully not forever. With planning and diligence, he could make amends.

It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.

I thought of the parable of the prodigal son. We had made merry for the beloved child's return too - but what happens when the beloved child doesn't say she's sorry? The parable doesn't talk about that. Jesus figures of course you're sorry. Jesus, I thought, you blew it. Not everybody is sorry.

I stalked you. Don't be mad.

If only she had never stolen Sarah-Charlotte's milk. None of this would have happened.

Forgiveness is your release from the hell of wanting to know what cannot be known and from wanting to see others suffer because they have hurt you.

Forgiveness is essential to healing, because it requires you to surrender your ego's need to have life fall into place around your personal version of justice.

El perdón es tu renuncia al infierno de querer saber lo que es imposible saber y de querer ver sufrir a otros porque te han herido.

forgiveness is a complex act of consciousness, one that liberates the psyche and soul from the need for personal vengeance and the perception of oneself as a victim.

We'll move on to the future and let the devil have the past.

he was running from Jesus and Jesus wouldn't give up the chase.

there was no room in a heart for both love and hate. She said that hate would soon eat up its half of the heart and want more and more until soon there would be no love left for anyone.

How did I fail my son so much that he'd betray what we believe? What great sin have I committed that I have to bear this burden?

Whatever happened is water under the bridge. Burn the damn bridge and forget the past, he whispered.

The past is the past. We can't undo it," Tabby said after a long sigh. "What you did almost two decades ago can't define the future any more than what I did about that same time can determine how tomorrow looks for me. We'd probably all choose to do things different if we could go back, but then we have to ask ourselves if we would be the same people we are today if we could do that.

Let go of the past. Live today and look forward to the future

Guilt trips never take you anywhere. Her mother's old adage came to mind.