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Quotes About Forgiveness

Je ne peux plus rien d'autre. Je ne les entends plus, tu sais. C'est sans doute qu'ils en ont fini avec moi. Fini: l'affaire est classée, je ne suis plus rien sur terre, même plus un lâche. Inès, nous voilà seuls: il n'y a plus que vous deux pour penser à moi. Elle ne compte pas. Mais toi, toi qui me hais, si tu me crois, tu me sauves.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
And you, fathers and mothers, loving par-ents, lower your eyes humbly. They are there, your dead children, stretching their frail arms towards you, and all the happiness you denied them, all the tortures you inflicted, weigh like lead on their sad, childish, unforgiving hearts.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Qarjet e të rriturve ishin si një katastrofë mistike, diçka si lotët që derdh Zoti për ligësinë e njerëzve.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.
~ Paul Kagame
I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.
~ Anton Yelchin
I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.
~ Rodney King
It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.
~ Theodore L. Cuyler
it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.
~ Charles Bukowski
The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.
~ Francis Quarles
Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.
~ Greg Cox
Advice: Don't wait until someone you have issues with — especially someone you're related to — gets shot before you work it out.
~ James Patterson
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.
~ Jane Fonda
Every time I stray away from the Lord's word, I find emptiness and darkness.
~ Tyson Fury
As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.
~ Sharon Salzberg
If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.
~ T. D. Jakes
I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
~ Carla Bruni
I have made my mistakes my strengths instead of looking at whose fault it is.
~ Arjun Kapoor
The key to a good relationship is how you repair the stress fractures.
~ Chris Sullivan
What's done is done, and what's the point of getting so stressed about things that you cannot change?
~ Ok Taec-yeon
Since coming out of jail, I still made mistakes daily. Don't me wrong, I'm not an angel by any stretch of the imagination, but my mistakes are just normal ones now like forgetting to go to the shop when the missus asks or not putting the bins out, stuff like that.
~ Troy Deeney
I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her when I was sixteen. It didn't go over so well, because I grew up in the Pentecostal Church. It was a very strict environment. She has since done a lot of work and has really blown my mind. She has learned about my life and has changed her mind.
~ Billy Porter
So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
~ Barry McGuire