Quotes About Forgiveness

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders, I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done, if I had been subjected to the same demoralizing influences and pressed by the same temptations.

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saith. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.

I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad.

May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

'Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying "long-time-no-see." If he hadn't broken your heart, you couldn't have that glorious feeling of relief!

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

Two wrongs do not make a right.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

"Oh, well," mused the young doctor, "it's too late to cry over spilt coffee — or an unwise decision."

No blubbering over spilt wine.

It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.

?im možemo nekom ?oveku da kažemo jasno i otvoreno da nas je uvredio i da navedemo posve odre?eno ?ime je to i kada u?inio, to zna?i da smo mu uvredu oprostili ili smo spremni da to u?inimo. Muka je dok uvredu nosimo ?utke u sebi.

Tako se teško živi, tako se kratko živi, pa još dobra polovica tog teškog i kratkog života nam pro?e u mržnji i nesporazumima. Oh, ugasite mržnju! Ljudi su nama potrebni i nikako se, nikako ne može živjeti bez opraštanja.

Dan je.... samo bijela hartija, na kojoj se sve biljezi i ispisuje.... a racun se placa nocu.. na velikim, mracnim poljima nesanice. Ali tu se sve rijesava i brise... konacno i nepovratno.. Svaka preboljena patnja, nestaje tu kao rijeka ponornica ili sagori bez traga i spomena...

?ini mi se kad bi ljudi znali, koliko je za mene napor bio živeti, oprostili bi mi lakše sve zlo što sam po?inio i sve dobro što sam propustio da u?inim, i još bi im ostalo malo ose?anja da me požale.