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Quotes About Forgiveness

God is merciful in what He sometimes lets us forget.
~ Chaim Potok
I'm supposed to be a christian, but most days I don't feel like I can even presume to say that about myself any longer. I have a lot of mad left over. When I can't sleep, I think about the other people who didn't care how much pain and trouble they caused me. And I think about how good I'd feel if they died.
~ Charlaine Harris
i hate not knowing what i did. _Eric
~ Charlaine Harris
Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly
~ Charlaine Harris
Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.
~ Charlaine Harris
Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he'd tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.
~ Charlaine Harris
Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation.
~ Charlaine Harris
Angélique Sookie, toi qui es la beauté et la grâce incarnées, pardonne-moi. Je suis accablé à l'idée que cette ménade malfaisante et démoniaque ait pu oser violenter ce corps parfait et voluptueux qui est le tien, dans l'intention de faire parvenir un message à mon indigne et misérable personne.
~ Charlaine Harris
I think forgiveness doesn't happen overnight. I think it comes in increments. When someone has made your life hell, maybe you have to recover from the fear and anger first? Before you start working on the other thing.
~ Charlaine Harris
people could bury the most serious and painful of memories, if you gave them enough time and distraction.)
~ Charlaine Harris
I realized closure was a necessary event, mentally and emotionally, but it seemed to me closure might gain traction as gradually as forgiveness did. These were not clear-cut stages with a beginning and a definite end.
~ Charlaine Harris
Those things don't matter. You had no control over your past
~ Charlaine Harris
Don't worry about not feeling guilty," Alcide said. "Something'll come along pretty soon that you'll feel guilty about. Save it up.
~ Charlaine Harris
Lizbeth," she said, and wrapped me in a hug, held me close and tight. "I am so glad to see you. I heard you had a bad time. I'm sorry about Tarken. And Galilee." Mom held me away from her, looked into my eyes. She rued what I'd become
~ Charlaine Harris
Don't worry about not feeling guilty. Something will happen soon for which you will feel guilty. Keep the feeling for then.
~ Charlaine Harris
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
~ George Eliot
I love Lady Stoneheart!
~ Richard Madden
I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
~ Latrell Sprewell
As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
~ Billy Graham
Rob Gronkowski cost me the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, and I haven't forgot that.
~ Jinder Mahal
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!
~ Diane Lane
Being brought in with Absolution and our mentor, Paige, I think it's really cool, and really full circle since she was our judge on 'Tough Enough,' and she hated me. She was rough with me, but I get it.
~ Mandy Rose
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow