Quotes About Forgiveness

Love takes work. Oh sure, you can love someone without trying. But when things get rough, if you don't love someone right down to your toes, it's way too easy to up and leave when they muck things up.

People make mistakes. They can be stupid and thoughtless and yet you can love them anyway. Because being human means making mistakes. And being in love means maybe sometimes you can forgive something utterly unforgivable.

returned to his drunken mice, dreaming their placid, inebriated dreams. He reached in and scratched one on the nose; like a bum, or one of his daughters, it seemed to snort before it rolled over. Poor mice. They were the only animals whose alcoholism he was able to forgive—he knew the genetics behind it, after all—and he often found himself envying them their single-minded devotion to drinking, and their peace.

Bygones are gone. That's not right, is it?

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move on, pet.

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

I'm sorry," he said again, and this time he took those words and owned them.

Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.

She pulled into a parking space on the side of the road, put her hand to her chest, and sat for a bit. Then she said that the man already knew he was the one in the wrong, and being wrong had embarrassed him. Since he didn't like feeling that way, he unloaded his bad feelings onto her. "Huh?" we'd said. "Yes, that man acted ugly," she told us in plain English. "But throwing more ugliness back at him ain't the answer.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes.

I felt sucker-punched. It wasn't God's fault Patrick had been treated worse than dirt, as I'd let myself believe. It was mine.

Todos temos defeitos, querida. Cada um de nós. E, acredite em mim, todos cometemos erros. (...) Você só precisa dar uma boa olhada em si mesma, mudar o que precisa ser mudado e seguir em frente, querida.

Tobin turned to Angie. "I'm such an idiot. Why didn't you remind me?" She smiled drowsily. "That you're an idiot? Okay: you're an idiot." "Oh that's great, thanks," he said. She giggled.

She felt justified in hurting him, because he had hurt her...but now all her justifications fell away like dead butterflies...

There's no room in a small town for grudges.

Never speak like that. You must never let hatred take over! Then you are no better than Festus! And hatred like that will destroy you.

The two condemned men kneeled at the water's edge, crying and pleading for mercy as the ships grew smaller and finally vanished over the horizon.

Why would the queen greet Winter, a mutineer, with open arms?

asked his master for forgiveness, but received none.

executioner placed the noose around the condemned man's neck, Elizabeth intervened to spare him.

Allah does not always open Its Jamal. The Murid's assignment is to unite the Jalal and the Jamal. These two are projected from, and absorbed back into, the black nothingness called Allah's Kamal - a state of invisible, neuter, annihilation. Jalal is Allah's power, force and strength. It often manifests as trials and tests for the Murid. Jamal is Allah's sweetness, compassion, understanding, and forgiveness. Kamal is the whispered breath of nonexistence.

Fatima Fatir as representative of Allâh's Jamal, saves humankind from Allâh's Jalal.

He [Crowley] realized that humanity is being asked to pray to some sky deity to be forgiven for expressing the needs of the very bodies which this deity supposedly created for humanity. In short, creation is being punished for having the very qualities it was created to have.

The Christos did not need to die for our sins. The Absolute Reality is perfectly capable of forgiving humanity without requiring the death of anyone and even less of his own Son.