Quotes About Forgiveness

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

You can always tell a real friend: when you make a fool of yourself, he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Only the brave know how to forgive…. A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no evil shall come either in the unknown where you are going, or in this imperfect and haunted dimension of awareness through which I move.

There's gotta be kindness after pain. Forgiveness.

There is a green hill far away, outside a city wall, where our dear Lord was crucified who died to save us all. We may not know, we cannot tell, what pains he had to bear, but we believe it was for us he hung and suffered there. He died that we might be forgiven, he died to make us good, that we might go at last to heaven, saved by his precious blood.

That is, if I understand God's abounding love and grasp that God forgives me even though I don't deserve it, the realization produces one powerful result: I forgive others. On every level and no matter how superficially or deeply I was hurt.

I'm learning that I have to practice forgiveness, and sometimes it feels as if I have to do it moment by moment. Whenever the trigger gets pulled or the cloud of shame descends, I'm learning to see it as an invitation to forgive. My negative reaction means I'm aware of my lack of releasing my grudge or pain against them. It also means I can learn to let go of the hurts they caused.

forgiving is not the same as forgetting.

Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you.

By tomorrow Marilyn would forget this moment: Lydia's shout, the shattered edges in her tone. It would disappear forever from her memory of Lydia, the way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves, shedding complexity like scales.

Na maioria dos casos, toda a gente merece mais do que uma oportunidade. Todos nós fazemos coisas que lamentamos de vez em quando e que teremos de levar para sempre dentro de nós.

They would make a pact: to let the past drift away, to stop asking questions, to look forward from them on, never back.

Acho que, na maioria das vezes, todo mundo merece mais de uma chance. Todos nós fazemos coisas de que nos arrependemos de vez em quando. Você só tem que carregá-las consigo.

Cinderella' from the point of view of the stepsisters. Maybe they weren't so wicked after all. Maybe she was actually a bitch to them.

When they had married, he and Marilyn had agreed to forget about the past. They would start a new life together, the two of them, with no looking back.

He has almost forgotten what it felt like. To touch her. To be forgiven even just this much

She tried to reconcile what Lexie was saying with the Lexie she knew. Lexie wanted an abortion? Baby-crazy Lexie, quick-to-judge-others Lexie, Lexie who'd been so unforgiving about Bebe's mistakes?

I wanted to kill her with my bare hands but it wouldn't have been Christian.

Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated.

1. Not practicing the four dharmas of a practitioner (not returning curses for curses, anger for anger, blow for blow, or insult for insult)

4. Not correcting those who are heedless

Because we all make mistakes, we also know that everyone else makes mistakes. So, within reason, we don't judge each other on the mistakes we make. We judge each other on how we deal with those inevitable mistakes.