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Quotes About Forgiveness

I will continue to make mistakes and hope to be forgiven so I have to treat people the same way I want to be treated.
~ John Assaraf
When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?
~ John Irving
You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.
~ Kristan Higgins
What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.
~ Loretta Chase
Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.
~ Marian Keyes
What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.
~ Marianne Williamson
I want you to be supervised, all day every day, by people who forgive your errors and believe in your destiny.
~ Martha Beck
Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.
~ Matthew Simpson
You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.
~ Melissa Bank
I can still discern people's weaknesses, but it doesn't make me want to exploit them; it makes me want to hug them.
~ Melissa Febos
Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?
~ Neal Shusterman
None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.
~ Louis XVI of France
We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other?
~ Mother Teresa
A true man hates no one.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
~ Golda Meir
The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife. They are children of peace who have beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning forks, and know no war.
~ Menno Simons
I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.
~ Aurangzeb
If the dead could speak there would be no more war.
~ Heinrich Boll
In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
I'm ready to stop waging war and start washing feet.
~ Rachel Held Evans
If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future.
~ Henry Watkins Allen
By bringing shame to a person, how could one expect to make him a better man?
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo