Quotes About Forgiveness

fury is unleashed more freely against those you are most close to . . . so close that there is the trust that anger and ugliness will be forgiven.

And in answer the words trembled on his lips - the words which are surely the root of all human grief - so that he almost said aloud : 'Almighty Host! Utmost power of the universe! I have done those things which I ought not to have done and left undone those things which I ought to have done. So this cannot truly be the end.

When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job.

And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he had been born, and he and his child had been welcomed with open arms.

Always their men would be fighters, quick to take offense, slow to forgive. To their children and to their children's children they would hand down their love of race, their personal loyalties, their stubbornnesses, their distrust of governments, their servility to no man. These are their strengths and their weaknesses, their glory—and sometimes, Christy, their damnation.

I wonder why I still want to slap her. I must be a very mean and unforgiving person.

Death smoothes the rough edges, obliterates the cruelties of the deceased. It makes heroes of monsters.

I think maybe that is what love is. Seeing beyond the scars, to the person below the surface.

Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we got it all wrong.

After all, soulmates always end up together. Silly Bethany won't even be remembered then. Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.

Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, he's a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the wrong things at all the wrong times, but behind closed doors he's a best friend. I understand that he has idiotic tendencies and I can still love him for it. He may not be someone that you feel comfortable sitting next to at a dinner party but for me, he's someone that I feel comfortable sharing my life with.

We all make mistakes, some bigger than others, but none of us is perfect.

People don't know that they do that to people when they do the things they shouldn't. Hurtful things are roots,they spread ,branch out, creep under the surface touching other parts of the lives of those they hurt. It's never one mistake, it's never one moment, it becomes a series of moments, each moment growing roots and spurting in different directions. And over time, they become muddled like an old twisted tree, strangling itself and tying itself up in knots.

And there are the very special people in our lives who have the endless capacity to love us for all of our flaws.

It can take a lifetime to build up a friendship- it can take a second to make an enemy.

Oh, it's called, em...' Kate thinks, 'I can't remember what it's called.' 'You're the same as me,' Dad says to her. 'You've got CRAFT too.' 'What's that?' 'Can't. Remember. A. Fuc-

Do unto others as others have done to you.

I've learned that the best revenge is finding happiness again.

Her heart was pounding, she was tired of thinking about it, tired of analyzing what on earth had happened, but she suddenly felt the need to repent, to apologize for everything she had ever done wrong just to feel worthy again.

She's found a way to live again. She deserves it. It's not right to be living with such anger. It's unhealthy. It destroys things.

don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.

It is no good wishing for what was not to be.

It's always that simple. I fucked up. I'm sorry. That's all she wants to hear—that you're sorry for fucking up, and that you've learned something from it, and that because of whatever you learned you're not even capable of doing it again. Everyone makes mistakes. She just wants to know that you know it was a mistake. Unless you kill somebody, it's pretty rare that the mistake is bad enough to fuck something up forever.

You don't want to make mistakes with people. Sometimes when you make a mistake you lose a human soul.