Quotes About Forgiveness

If at times my words seem angry, you must forgive me. In my mind, there is great anger. No one who has seen the suffering of our children and the tears of our grandmothers cannot be angry. But in my heart I struggle to forgive, because the land is my teacher, and the land says to forgive.

Living for the future is more important than trying to avenge the past.

Among thousands of comrades and ten thousand enemies, only you... only you made me forget my dream

You don't have to forget the past to start enjoying the present.

Love doesn't please itself by seeking revenge. Love sacrifices itself for the good of others.

He remains kind, but a feeling nags at me, staying with me long after I leave. And it's this: It doesn't matter what I did to him. He can choose to remain detached, untouched by me. Something I can't do back.

Whatever bad things have happened to you in your life, whatever hard things you've gone through, you have to do three things: You have to accept it. You have to be kind to it...And listen to me. You have to let it be kind to you.

What have you got against Germans? The War's over, you know.

Some to whom evil is done resolve never to inflict such pain on anyone and become very good indeed.

The sermon passed into the general confession, and Phryne admitted with perfect frankness that she had done those things which she ought not to have done and left undone those things which she ought to have done.

Repentance confesses, "God, I am wrong regardless of what anyone else has done." The moment you say, "God, I am wrong but so are they," you are trying to find a defense for remaining like you are.

Most of the time when people are wrong they try to hide it, reason it away, or simply try to ignore and forget it. If we saw the awfulness of sin from God's perspective it would make a difference in how we live.

the Kingdom, not the menace of hell, as the motive for repentance.

An apology is a statement that sincerely expresses your sorrow for your role in causing—or at least not preventing—pain or difficulty to others.

Du hast dir selber eins übergebraten! Kannst du dich noch daran erinnern, wie gemein du deswegen zu mir warst?« Gideon grinste schwach. »Ja, kann ich. Und es tut mir ehrlich leid. Aber wer rechnet denn auch mit so was? Jetzt komm schon! Bevor der Blödmann wieder aufwacht.

Confucius says the wise man forgets insults just as the ungrateful man forgets good deeds.

never feel guilty about anything shame and guilt are a waste of time just do what you do-- and deal with it

On the Day of Atonement, the Levites performed the central sacrificial rites of the believing community, stewarding annual ceremonies that in graphic detail pictured the evil nature of sin and the bloody nature of divinely provided atonement for sin. The Day of Atonement was a visceral affair, filled with blood and fire and death and, at the pulsing core of it all, the realized hope of forgiveness through repentance. The people could be pure.

Don't treat people as bad as they are. Treat them as good as you are.

But the Grace of God is so powerful that it utterly disregards our past and sees only the potential we have to become in Him.

The only way we can ever teach a child to say "I'm sorry" is for him to hear it from our lips first.

The person who is a defeated perfectionist generally has a conscience that's way too big. So big, in fact, that it magnifies shortcomings and failures and won't let its owner forget sins or imaginary sins of years ago, even though they have long since been repented of or paid for.

Because no one is perfect, we all desperately need forgiveness. By forgiving others you allow them to be human, and in doing so it makes you more aware of how human you really are. Think of all the people you've judged because of their behavior. Isn't it true that some of them behave in very similar ways to you? There isn't a person on the face of this earth who doesn't need grace.

I hated the Naga, you know." Garul nodded. "I once hated humans, too. Then I learned to understand them instead." That made sense to Owen. "It's hard to hate what you understand.