Quotes About Forgiveness

Let us face the fact: how else can we endure life on this earth unless we can achieve a large degree of tolerance of oneself and others? Life is far too painful if we are hypersensitive and look for the flaws in everything.

Agape, the Christian word, means unconquerable benevolence. It means that, no matter what people may do to us by way of insult or injury or humiliation, we will never seek anything else but their highest good. It

I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife.

Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

The cut worm forgives the plow.

And throughout all Eternity I forgive you, you forgive me. As our dear Redeemer said: "This the Wine, and this the Bread.

Throughout all eternity I forgive you you forgive me.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

We laughed at the hollyhocks together and then I sprayed them with lye. Forgive me. I simply do not know what I am doing.

If you are not already too blind too deaf, too lost in the past to know or to care— I will write a book about you— making you live (in a book!) as you still desperately want to live— to live always—unforgiving

She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

My daily life is an acknowledgment and expiation of my sin.

You are suffering from disappointment. But this will pass away. The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong; the mere injury he can efface by destroying the victim and the witness but the mistake is his and that is one of his cats which he always prefers to choke to death with butter.

I will never lie again.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

If we could have just done something so dreadful and Father said That's sad too people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today and I said, You can shirk all things and he said, Ah can you.

the town believed that good women dont forget things easily, good or bad, lest the taste and savor of forgiveness die from the palate of conscience.

Bir gün Cora'yla konuÅŸuyordum. Dua etti benim için, günah? göremediÄŸimi san?yordu, benim de diz çöküp dua etmemi istedi, çünkü günah? kelimeler olarak görenlerin gözünde kurtuluÅŸ da kelimelerdir yaln?zca.

The shameful knowledge grew in them and they did not know how to begin confession.

Something to forgive is a purer joy than geometry.