Quotes About Forgiveness

We're all made to make mistakes; nobody's perfect.

If you've raged, if you've mistreated somebody, if you've ever thought only about yourself - these are things that all human beings struggle with and judge themselves for.

Even between the best of friends, mistakes and misunderstandings can happen.

There's room for role models who make mistakes.

Moms are people, too. Moms make mistakes, too.

I don't know how else to say it: I'm a monster.

I'm not a monster.

We should have sent the apartheid monsters to jail, not let them off with an amnesty.

trust is easy to throw away and hard to regain.

I'm urging you to raise your children the way God raises His. The primary word that defines how God deals with His children is grace.

the number-one cause of an anxious heart is unresolved disappointment in others.

You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

I hated him for making me stop hating him

It had no memory, therefore no guilt

Go where you will; commit what crime you may; fall to what depth of degradation you may; you can never commit any crime that will shut my door, my arms, or my heart to you. As long as I live you shall have one sincere friend.

The Irishman had a tendency to let long-standing guilt dry out into annoyance.

You can't undo baptism.

what is the lesson of history, if not that we owe each other more bread, more friendship, fewer lies, less cruelty.

He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless.

People are fools, not monsters

Please God, whatever I was I am no longer….All is forgotten, if not forgiven—it could have come to that. But I don't trust the thought. I don't know if it's because it would be too easy or too terrible to imagine no one cares anymore.

I spose it's wrong to pray that someone dies… But I've thought about all the prayers. If that's what I was doing them years…Asking something, someone, anything, for a big black anvil to fall from the sky like in the cartoons. Kerang! On Wankbag's head. Because nothing else was gunna save [me]…

No matter how you spin it, forgiveness is costly. Regardless of how big or small the offense, canceling a debt and absorbing the cost is going to hurt. But the parable shows us that not forgiving also has a price, and it is higher than the price forgiveness demands.

Confession, apology, and forgiveness, Aunt Beru had been fond of reminding him, were the tools friends used to break walls down into bridges.