Quotes About Forgiveness

It's when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I'd assassinated, that I unravel inside.

The past cannot return. If I have wounded you, forgive. If no more your breast will yearn To warm this straying heart, oh live The dreams that warm it yet, The memories it would not forget. There is no strife, all that has gone. There is no pain, the will is set. There are hours for thought to feed on, But none to keep alive regret. However sadly a heart may yearn, The past cannot, cannot return.

Wink at wee faults, your ain are meikle.

As he accepted my peace offering, his lips twitched into a sexy half grin. Lifting the coffees in a salutation of forgiveness he then winked at me, which sent my heart fluttering...

I've seen hate on the faces of too many Klansmen and too many White Citizens Councilors in the South to want to hate myself, because every time I see it, I know that it does something to their faces and their personalities and I say to myself that hate is too great a burden to bear. I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

By too much sitting still the body becomes unhealthy; and soon the mind. This is nature's law. She will never see her children wronged. If the mind, which rules the body, ever forgets itself so far as to trample upon its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury; but will rise and smite its oppressor. Thus has many a monarch mind been dethroned.

You must finish... every day, & be done with it. For manners, & for wise living, it is a vice to remember. You have done what you could — some blunders & absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as fast as you can tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well & serenely, & with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This day for all that is good & fair. It is too dear with its hopes & invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.

Criminal Minds, All You Can Eat: "Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

The least unkindness from a friend is of greater smart than the hardest usage from an enemy.

A small wrong from a friend makes a greater wound in a man's heart than a great wrong from an enemy.

These were voted as the three sweetest words in the English language: 1. I love you. 2. Dinner is served. 3. All is forgiven. 4. Sleep 'til noon. 5. Keep the change. 6. Here's that five.

Let love's apologies wait not 'til death's doorway.

The only way you may correct the bad things in your past is to add better things to your future.

If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you…it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.

What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Even if you attempt to ignore the loss, the emotional experience of it is implanted in your heart and mind, and no eraser will remove it.

In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry (Ephesians 4:26).

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

Don't hold resentments for the experiences that helped make you who you are

Forgiveness does not mean we simply forget, or we are ok with what has happened. Forgiveness means we understand humans unconsciously do horrible things. Forgiveness is a choice not to be held in a pain prison of the past. Forgiveness is to choose presence. Forgiveness is to choose peace.

Guilt cannot change the past any more than worry can change the future

Mistakes need correction not punishment