Quotes About Forgiveness

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another's pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

A criminal always returns home.

The most important people are the once who loved me when i was hardly likable

I do mistakes. You do mistakes. Still we end up with a warm hug. That's you. That's me.

The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart's memory but love itself?

In your hands I am no longer a pile of bones left behind to a world that moved on.

To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy.

He said I wanted revenge, but if I wanted revenge I would've just broken his heart.

He said he was going to fix everything and I believed him. But I believed him before and again some. And I guess I got lost in the resentment of disbelief.

Love grants us the power to forgive, to love when we're hurt, but it also gives us the courage to let go, and the understanding that to love, we love freely—at our own choice.

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity.

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

All disease, all unhappiness, come from the violation of the law of love. Man's boomerangs of hate, resentment and criticism, come back laden with sickness and sorrow.

We expect places and products to be less attractive than in marketing brochures, but we never forgive humans for being worse than their first impressions

When she shouts that what you did was unforgivable, she has already started to forgive you.

the worst pain inflicted on you will come from someone who at some point in your life cared about you.

Kun nainen huutaa, että tekosi oli anteeksiantamaton, hän on jo alkanut antaa anteeksi.

I cannot overcome a fear whose reality I deny. I cannot correct a problem in the way I deal with my associates if I will not admit it exists. I cannot change traits I insist I do not have. I cannot forgive myself for an action I will not acknowledge having taken.

Self-acceptance entails the idea of compassion, of being a friend to myself.

such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

for when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.

let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will always be in her heart

Methought the germ of it was dead in me! Oh, Hester, thou art my better angel! I seem to have flung myself— sick, sin-stained, and sorrow-blackened— down upon these forest leaves, and to have risen up all made anew, and with new powers to glorify Him that hath been merciful! This is already the better life! Why did we not find it sooner?