Quotes About Forgiveness

Larry felt a strange forgiveness for him because all monsters were misunderstood.

three weeks later she was breech-birth dead. Dixie Clay confided in her father that she'd caused them, these deaths her punishment, but her father was emphatic, one hand on each of her cheeks, No, no. It had nothing to do with her. And he made her promise not to think that the world organized itself to spite her or reward her,

One moral of this little story might be that once you've burned a bridge with lies, it may be that nothing short of divine intervention can rebuild the relationship and create a positive result.

Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer — that it was better to leave well enough alone, to avoid unnecessary encounters with people you'd left behind, to not keep poking at that sore tooth with the tip of your tongue. Not because you didn't love them anymore, but because you did, and because that love was useless now, just another dull ache in your phantom limb.

The past can come back in a lot of different ways, chile. It don't get old and wind up buried like people do. It can die and be reborn. Sins take on shape and peck at your face.

It is never too late to have a happy childhood.

Screw me once, shame on you, screw me twice shame on me. Screw me three times...can I at least get a reach around?

It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.

Humans are the only creatures that have the ability to forgive.

Trying to forget someone you loved is like trying to remember someone you never knew.

You'll have to forgive me, I went to public school.

Victims don't have to take action; they're too busy dwelling on injustice and being bitter. Remember,

got to give it all up, the pain, the hurt, the anger and make room for lovely things to rush in and fill you full.

Antoinette, tu vas sûrement trouver que la vie est injuste, comme tu as déjà pu t'en rendre compte. Les gens vont t'accuser, ils l'ont d'ailleurs déjà fait. Mais écoute-moi bien. J'ai lu les rapports de police. J'ai vu ton dossier médical. Je sais exactement ce que tu as subi, et je t'assure que rien de tout cela n'est de ta faute. Tu n'as pas à avoir honte.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

One of the main reasons I remain a Christian is because I love knowing that my sins are not only forgiven, but also forgotten!

These are God's thoughts and intentions toward us. He is for us, not against us. None of these letters begin with "Shame, Guilt, and Condemnation to you" because that is not God's heart toward us, grace is.

Even the most wicked have a family that loves them.

I'm sorry that I hurt you." "You didn't hurt me." There was a long pause on the phone. Then she said,"You are going to hurt from this longer than I ever will. It's true that I didn't know what kind of Indian you were. But what hurts me most is to know what kind of man.

Give others the benefit of the doubt and remember that people are doing the best they can with the resources that they have.

What the Didache doesn't say is that the community should shun or excommunicate those who commit the forbidden sins. In fact, "correct some, pray for others, and some you should love more than your own life" makes plain that the worst sinners should be showered with the most love.

No matter the reason, the people didn't turn on Jesus because they were Jews. They turned on Jesus because they were human.

God cannot be bound by a law, a moral code, a universal sense of justice, or a "deep magic from the dawn of time." God could have forgiven us of our sin however God wanted too—with or without the execution of his son.