Quotes About Forgiveness

It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.

I think it's part of your mental health to let go of things. I think if you would have it all right there, it would be a little overwhelming. I don't know how you'd have a relationship. When you have a relationship, don't two people collude to kind of forget certain things?

I'm still friends with most of my exes. There are only one or two people that I'll never talk to again.

In the end, granting mercy comes down to just two people. For the recipient, the pardon is freedom. For the politician, the pardon can mean - not surprisingly - political gain.

Salman never forgets his promises and gave me a second chance in 'Mental'. He is the giving type.

My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.

Hate is ugly.

I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.

I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

You don't have to be angry and become an ugly person.

I have let go of ugly things that have happened to me.

The Canadian government has had a field day apologising for past policies towards a series of ethnic groups: Italian, Ukrainian, Sikh, Chinese, Japanese and Jews.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

Usher did the ultimate no-no to me. I will never be with him again, and that is that.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

No person and no character is beyond redemption, ultimately. That's the great thing about playing a character that has kind of a dark side; there's room to explore the opposite.

'Hatfields & McCoys' is a very profound statement in what happens when you're unable to let go of hatred and hurt and unable to have any kind of goodness in your life.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.

It's been a while since I've been to church, but you don't get unborn again.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.