Quotes About Forgiveness

I cannot help thinking that, if mine and Ellis's book exists, there might be men, even if it is only a handful, who read it, and see that they must never marry. Or there might be grown-up children who read it, and forgive their fathers. I don't think it is silly of me, to wish to spare people pain. The book may not change the law, not on its own, but it may spare people pain.

I like to believe in the good in people. But we're all going to screw up from time to time. It just happens. It really is how our best growth occurs.

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.

There's a way I could have done things differently. I know that. If I offended anyone along the way, I do apologize.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality.

There will be moments when you disagree or cross a line and say or do something offensive or hurtful to someone you truly care about.

I can say I have forgiven my captors. That being said, I never want to see them again. I'm not OK with they did to me.

Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.

Your characters can do the worst things on Earth - cut to a happy baby, it ends up being OK.

Give them a big hug. He's your old man - why is it so hard?

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

Tell me one friend you haven't looked at with hatred and then hugged the next day.

I think that everybody, at one time or another, has been betrayed and lied to, and it's about the pain, and it's about the healing process, and it's about how do you get past that and move on.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

I believe in reinventing oneself if one has messed up and is repentant and actually makes an effort to change for the better, I'm all about that.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.

Only love can heal hatred.