Quotes About Forgiveness

The American male is a quivering mass of insecurities. If a woman makes the mistake of loving him, he will make her suffer terribly for her utter lack of taste. I don't think men can ever forgive women for loving them to the exclusion of all others.

One must always forgive another's passion.

My life did not really begin until I summoned the power to forgive my father for making my childhood a long march of terror.

a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.

I was being cynical. I'm sorry. It's a family habit I've fallen prey to.

could not hold them accountable or indict them for crimes they could not help. They, too, had a history—one that I remembered with both tenderness and pain, one that made me forgive their transgressions against their own children. In families there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

and wondered when it was, the exact moment, that I had lost her, that I let her fall too far away from me, that I betrayed the laughing girl and let the world have her. The photograph cut into my heart and I began to read the letter aloud.

Great romantics are granted lots of slack.

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.

But you had a right to be angry." "Yes. But not to hurt those I love, or myself.

I need you to forgive me. And then perhaps I can begin to forgive myself. There is no one but you who can do that either.

He finally took his harp out of the cobwebs, walked out the door, and admitted who he was: the Unforgiven.

shouldn't be blaming

we must let the Lord punish the wrongdoer. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.

Don't you want to forget it, if it's past? I don't know. I don't know just how you mean that. I mean, are you sorry? No. Would I do the same thing again? Yes. Do you mean with somebody else, or with her? With her, Therese said.

Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, Darling, can I ask you to forgive me? The tone hurt Therese more than the question. I love you, Carol. But do you see what it means?

Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, 'Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?' The tone hurt Therese more than the question. 'I love you, Carol.

If he could fully believe in the pearly gates of the priests or the spirits of his father, he might welcome death, but all Cade could think of was Lily. It was odd that he had spent twenty years of his life simply surviving, only to spend his dying minutes dreaming of a woman who hated him. Closing his eyes, Cade felt the warmth of her body close to his. She didn't hate him completely. Her body was too warm and alive to his touch to hate him entirely. Had there been time... Damn

We need a national Forgive the Ignorant Day

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

swept over me. Guiltily I came to your bedside. There are the things I was thinking, son: I had been cross to you. I scolded you as you were dressing for school because you gave your face merely a dab with a towel. I took you to task for not cleaning your shoes. I called out angrily when you threw some of your things on the floor. At breakfast I found fault, too. You spilled things. You gulped down your food. You put your elbows on the table.

No lloremos nunca sobre la leche derramada

Pero se necesita carácter y dominio de sí mismo para ser comprensivo y capaz de perdonar.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.