Quotes About Forgiveness

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'

If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.

When you do something that maybe wasn't the best thing to do at the time, you don't want to hold onto those feelings of guilt, shame or embarrassment, as much as you'd like to learn from them.

Over the past months and years, divisions have opened up in Malaysian society. Now it is time for all of us, in government and beyond, to put the bitterness behind us.

Everyone should give a second chance, but everyone is also entitled to their opinion.

Even if I had not been waiting but had shut the doors against you, you should have remembered that no one can possibly shut the doors against love forever.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

Not Forgive us for our sins but Smite us for our iniquities should be the prayer of man to a most just God.

Jack: "Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?" Gwendolen: "I can. For I feel that you are sure to change.

When he [Christ] says 'Forgive your enemies', it is not for the sake of the enemy but for one's own sake that he says so, and because Love is more beautiful than Hate.

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.

I never change. MRS. CHEVELEY: (elevating her eyebrows) Then life has taught you nothing? LADY CHILTERN: It has taught me that a person who has once been guilty of a dishonest and dishonorable action may be guilty of it a second time, and should be shunned. MRS. CHEVELEY: Whould that rule apply to everyone? LADY CHILTERN: Yes, to everyone, without exception. MRS. CHEVELEY: Then I am sorry for you, Gertrude, very sorry for you.

The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui, Dorian. That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.

Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

I am not sorry for anything that has happened. It has taught me to know myself better.

LORD ILLINGWORTH. The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. LADY

All those who come in contact with his [Christ's] personality, even though they may neither bow to his altar or kneel before his priest, in some way find that the ugliness of their sin is taken away and the beauty of their sorrow is revealed to them.

Through vanity he had spared her.

Though your sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them as white as snow.

Though forgiveness was impossible, forgetfulness was possible still, and he was determined to forget