Quotes About Forgiveness

Hate is a very strong and heavy emotion, probably as strong as love. I don't think I can live with hatred. If something bad happens, you feel bad about it; you forgive and move on. There's no hatred.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

One of the things I believe in most strongly is the power of a second chance.

As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.

Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

I always struggled with the idea of forgiving my enemies.

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

Reveling in our opponents' missteps and losses drags us down as a country and diminishes our potential as people.

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Never will I ever have any bad feelings toward Orlando; it will always be positive.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world.

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes.

Forgiveness for one's self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise.

The Gospel announces that Jesus came to acquit the guilty. He came to judge and be judged in our place. Christ came to satisfy the deep judgment against us once and for all so that we could be free from the judgement of God, others, and ourselves.

It was Dec. 22, 1981. I figured I had messed up enough, and I decided to have a little faith and let God take over. It definitely straightened my act up in a hurry.

Love always overcomes hate.

I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good.

Maybe Larry was wrong about the word friend, maybe he'd been shoved away from everybody for so long all he was was a sponge for the wrongs other people did.

Well, sugar," she said, limping off, "don't be too hard on yourself. Now and again it's okay to let yourself off the hook." But that was the trouble, wasn't it? Letting himself off the hook had been his way of life.

The land had a way of covering the wrongs of people.