Quotes About Forgiveness

Perdónales, podríais decir, pues no saben lo que hacen. Pero llega un momento en la historia en el que la ignorancia ya no es un defecto disculpable...; llega un momento en el que sólo la sabiduría tiene el poder de la absolución.

I have witnessed evil for which there is no absolution!

No matter what your past has been you have a spotless future.

If we can stop judging our mistakes so harshly, we can also stop ourselves from reactively engaging in the negative behaviors.

Father Lenar Hoyt stepped away from the wall where he had been leaning, raised his right hand with thumb and little finger touching, three fingers raised, the gesture somehow including himself as well as those before him, and said softly, 'Ego te absolvo.

Our apartment was filled with photos of us, notes I wrote to myself about us, holos of us on Hyperion, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you know. In the morning he would be an absolute stranger. By afternoon I began to believe what we'd had, even if I couldn't remember. By evening I'd be crying in his arms Ã¢â'¬Â¦ then, sooner or later, I'd go to sleep. It's better this way." Rachel

Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.

There's no going back from what happened. You can go back and understand the past, but you can't go back and change it.

There must be that second, bobbing and darting in the aliveness of their shared history, unmistakable, glowing like a firefly in the darkness. If only they could pinpoint it and stop it there, right there, at the small but indelible spot that somehow they missed the first time around, if only, then perhaps their whole family could begin again.

think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be," wrote Joan Didion in her essay "On Keeping a Notebook," "whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, and who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

I don't think that we have any right to have a sort of generalized criticism, if not hatred, of the people who hated us, because then we only descend to the level of those people who persecuted us for so many years. New

We drank the rum, and I forgot my promise to God.

To give the history of a wicked life repented of, necessarily requires that the wicked part should be make as wicked as the real history of it will bear, to illustrate and give a beauty to the penitent part, which is certainly the best and brightest, if related with equal spirit and life.

God ... had not only punished me less than my iniquity had deserved, but had so plentifully provided for me - this gave me great hopes that my repentance was accepted, and that God yet had mercy in store for me.

Take it back, Ed. Take it all back.

You meet people who are in pain in life and love and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

I can't have it near me anymore, I'm grenading it back to you, as soon as I unfold it and read it and cry one more time. Because me too, and fuck you. Even now.

The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you?

It's one thing for forgive yourself a mistake. But if you knew it was a mistake at the time, how do you forgive yourself then?

It will be a very long time before I trust you ever, ever - OK, I trust you again.

Te devuelvo la sonrisa y aquella noche, te lo devuelvo todo. Ojalá pudiera.

This is what happens. You meet people who are in pain, in life and love, and you forgive them for behaving the way they do.

Why is there mean, when there are better things than mean, love particularly?

It's one thing to forgive yourself a mistake. But if you knew it was a mistake at the time, how do you forgive yourself then?