Quotes About Forgiveness

I do... to this day, think that success is being able to look in the mirror and know that I'm alright on that day. I don't believe I've made it–I believe that I'm making it. I believe that I've found my past so that I can live in the present, it's the most important thing to me. The books and the plays and the touring and the gigs and the speeches and the cash...it all pales into insignificance when compared with knowing that I didn't do anything wrong, and I'm going to be okay now.

Bitterness rots the vessel that carries it.

When you apologize, it is a bit like reaching the last page of a book. The book is still there, with your wicked deed inside, but at least it is closed and put on a shelf. Every single thing I ought to have apologized for, and didn't, is like a book lying open and unfinished.

You can easily think of times when you were horrible, and when I say easily I mean it is very easy to remember these times and hard to stop remembering. They ache in the brain and the body, these shameful memories, like a broken bone that has never quite healed right.

the wicked choice, the wrong thing you may have done, is easier to find than comfort and forgiveness, that it takes more effort to be a good person than a bad one, which might be why one sees wickedness in abundance, just sitting and waiting, while goodness is often so elusive, a word which refers to things that keep slipping away.

It's easy to forgive the summer rain; like first love, white lies or blarney, there's no malignity in it.

If there was a level of hell filled with slutty women who made stupid mistakes, she would be their queen.

Even if you have just destroyed a Ming Vase, purr. Usually all will be forgiven.

Maybe he should start this healing journey by trying to figure out how to forgive himself? How could he expect true forgiveness from other is he didn't have the courage to look at himself in the eye and offer forgiveness to the man he'd become?

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Every Mass a Communion Mass" should be the aim of all of us, provided, of course, that anyone conscious of a mortal sin must be forgiven in the sacrament of Confession before receiving our Lord.

Da uno che non sa ridere non ci si può aspettare misericordia.

There is a saying, "A patsh fargeyt, a vort bashteyt"—"A slap passes, but a word [that is, an insult] remains.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Love those you hate you.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Every heart has its own skeletons.

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...

I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.