Quotes About Forgiveness

God is willing to forgive you the sin that you carry for being a child of man, but you must forgive yourself for having once been a child.

Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.

Consider non your superior, whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your belief and others will listen. he continued at a slower pace, of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. thats your most powerfull too to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness. that is all i have to sayGarrow to Roran p 64

I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past

Everyone messes up. How you deal with it is what determines who you are.

Blaming yourself is perfectly normal, but it doesn't do you any good. Until you stop, unless you can stop, you'll never be able to fully recover.

You have learned from your mistake, and you shall not make it again. Why, then, should you withhold your blessing from those who may benefit from it?

Blaming the dead for our mistakes never accomplishes much.

You were right. But I don't condemn her for it. Trianna deals with the world in the best way she can, as do we all. I understand that, even if I don't approve, and understanding - as Oromis said - breeds empathy.

Then forgive him. And if you can't forgive, at least forget, for he meant you no harm, however rash that act was.

Learn what you can about Murtagh from this. Then forgive him. And if you can't forgive, at least forget, for he meant you no harm, however rash the act was.

MAKING AMENDS "You are late," said Nasuada as Eragon and Angela found

you had that…that…problem with Mary Ann

We classify the positive traits that protect us from excess as strengths of temperance. What are the types of excess of special concern? Hatred—against which forgiveness and mercy protect us. Arrogance—against which humility and modesty protect us. Short-term pleasure with long-term costs—against which prudence protects us. And destabilizing emotional extremes of all sorts—against which self-regulation protects us.

McCullough and colleagues have worked with a more circumscribed definition of forgiveness. They have defined forgiveness as motivational changes whereby a person becomes less motivated toward revenge and avoidance of a transgressor, and simultaneously more benevolent toward the transgressor.

If you honestly feel you have done something so terrible that you cannot be forgiven, then I am willing to share your sins with you. When we die, if we should have to stand before God and be judged, then I will tell him I am as much to blame as you and that half your punishment should be portioned out to me.

La colpa è una cosa perfida: una volta che ti penetra dentro è difficile liberarsene.

Let it go, David. It will only stir up old wounds.' 'Who cares about old ones? It's the new ones that bleed.

He said, where there is love, there is my grace.

Vengeance is always possible, he said, but only if your memory can endure it.

This might be the price of vengeance, she thinks. You have to spend the rest of your life living inside the memories of the worst things done to you so you can constantly justify what you did to avenge them.

We all make mistakes. There's a place we can take those to. There's a thing we can nail them to." Her eyes close for a moment and she sees the cross in the shadows of the fading light. "You can nail it to the cross and let it go, Dan. You can let someone else take that burden.

Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin.

Confession is good for the soul, it empties the soul making more space for sin.