Quotes About Forgiveness

vengeance would only taste sweet for a second, and then it would be a permanent stain on her soul.

too." She couldn't believe she'd said the words aloud. How could she still be so angry with Lucie?

Hearts can do that, you know: hold on to something when the rest of you has forgotten about it. Hearts have longer memories than brains.

The only person your anger hurts is you. Let it go. Accept it. Move on.

If a guest enters your house holding the severed head of your only son in his hand, you must still receive him, offer him food and drink and honour him as a guest.' That is a wise law. But sometimes it is very difficult to keep

Okay," he said. "You're right. You weren't invited. Now I'm inviting you. Will you come?" I smiled and sat up. "Absolutely." And that was it. There was no further discussion about our troubled year, no recriminations. Apparently, my decision to move out had been effective. From that moment on, my friendship with Carl and Franz was restored. We remain close to this day.

There should be a statute of limitations on unrequited love.

If you wait long enough, all murders will have lost their scream, all bloodlines forgotten, all dynamite broken, all storms settled, all bones cleaned of the memory of sin.

Ahora estas sufriendo por ella. Pero ella esta muerta y ya no padecera mas. Y tu sufres en vez de ella. En su lugar. Y, haciendolo, ¿no estas empezando a vivir por ella?

While our sight is limited, so is our formation. While salvation entails many things (forgiveness, imputation of righteousness and so on), ultimately, it entails a new relationship. The sinner, cut off from the Father by his wrath now stands before him as child. She who was once rejected before God is now the beloved before him.

The toughest part of life isn't death after all. It's living and dealing with our pasts.

I know my past ain't one you can easily get past/But that chapter is done" —JAY-Z

don't mistake my calm for forgiveness because there's none where you're concerned.

People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

To love in spite of all is the secret of greatness. And may very well be the greatest secret in this universe.

You know, everyone has a past. Sometimes, it's what makes us who we are, but sometimes, it lets us know who we don't ever want to be. I'm not sure what your past has been like, but I do know it doesn't have to be your future.

As I lowered my mouth to her neck, I whispered, "I'm going to erase all your bad memories, angel. Every damn one of them." I ran my lips leisurely from the curve of her jaw down to her shoulder. "You'll only be able to remember the feel of my mouth on your skin, my hands on your body, and the thrust of my cock when I bury myself deep inside you—over and over. Everything else will be forgotten." "Yes," she rasped.

let go of what's gone, and be grateful for what still remains.

Davy lets fly an oath and storms out of the hold. We hear his fist hit the wall as he leaves. you really are an evil girl, says Jaimy. I know, I murmur. I shall have to pay.

If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.

You wanted us all back together again!" Bonnie shouted at Caroline, and pulled the scandalized girl into the dance. Meredith, her dignity forgotten, joined them too. And for a long time in the clearing there was only rejoicing.

do no harm. help when you can. return good for evil.

She knew, then, that it had not been hatred that had made him avoid her for so long. No, it had not been hatred at all.