Quotes About Forgiveness

Grace makes the heart tender, it causes sympathy and charity. As it melts the heart in contrition towards God, so in compassion towards others.

God may chastise, but He cannot hate.

The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell (Rom. 8:33).

What a vast difference is there between the first covenant and the second! In the first covenant it was, if you commit sin you die; in the second it is, if you confess sin you shall have mercy.

A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.

It is better that men should reproach you for repenting than that God should damn you for not repenting.

We should look upon sin in two looking-glasses—the glass of Christ's blood, and the glass of death.

All the legal washings and purifications were but types and emblems representing Christ's blood. This blood whitens the black soul.

A man may as well go to hell for not forgiving as for not believing.

By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape.

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found its way through the eyes of the Marquesa, then, carefully wrapped in understanding and forgiveness, it sank into her heart.

All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love -- I scarcely dare say it -- but in love our very mistakes don't seem to be able to last long?

Tutti, tutti noi abbiamo fallito. Desideriamo tutti un castigo. Desideriamo tutti di farci carico di ogni tipo di penitenza, ma sai, figlia mia, che in amore -riesco a malapena a dirlo- ma in amore i nostri errori non sembrano durare molto a lungo".

Mi mindannyian, mindannyian vétkeztünk. Vezekelni akarunk. Szívesen magunkra vállalunk minden penitenciát, tudja meg azonban, leányom, hogy az, aki szeret - alig merem ezt kimondani -, az, aki igazán szeret, már alig-alig b?nös.

most végre tanuld meg, hogy bárhol e világon számíthatsz kegyelemre.

Cause it's not too late It's never too late

But you don't love something because you're blind to its faults, right? You love it despite its flaws.

me up," she mumbled. "She didn't say who. I just assumed . . ." She took in the bemused way he was looking at her. "I'm sorry." He shook his head. "No, it's okay. Why sorry? Nothing wrong

the sting of Maya's betrayal has salted the sting of an earlier betrayal.

podemos pensar que aquellos que nos dañaron actuaron de ese modo debido a su propia confusión e ignorancia. Aunque solamente querían ser felices, utilizaron los medios erróneos y se dañaron a sí mismos y a nosotros. Al pensar de esta manera podremos comenzar a perdonarlos y a curar nuestras heridas emocionales.

Train constantly toward the chosen objects: those living together [with you], those hostile toward you, and those unappealing to you.

Do not be ill-tempered, regardless of how others treat you.

There are too many people too angry at a world that isn't the least bit angry at them.