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Quotes About Forgiveness

BELIZE: Louis, I'd even pray for you.      He was a terrible person. He died a hard death. So maybe . . . A queen can forgive her vanquished foe. It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet. Peace, at least. Isn't that what the Kaddish asks for?
~ Tony Kushner
It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.
~ Tony Kushner
remembering what she said about love trying to live with what I can't rise above.
~ Unknown
No te preocupes por ellos -le decía a Dios- por... por... porque... todos son equi... equi... ¡eso es!... equivocaciones tuyas. Son los ren... renglones torci... torcidos, de cuando apren... apren... ¡eso es!... aprendiste a escribir. ¡Los pobres locos son tus fal.. faltas de orto... ortografía!
~ Unknown
Att leva utan att komma i skuld, det är omöjligt, så har du Vårherre danat livet.
~ Unknown
All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day. A pal never forgives, he just forgets, and a woman forgives but never forgets. That's how it is. That's why women aren't allowed to have parties. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.
~ Tove Jansson
I remember the dog at home, when I was a girl; the one that killed chickens. They tied a dead hen around his neck and he carried it around with him all day until he just lay there unmoving with his eyes shut in a morass of shame. It was cruel. There's nothing so hideously easy as giving someone a bad conscience.
~ Tove Jansson
The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts...
~ Tove Jansson
Anyone can lose his temper and fly off the handle. But it's better than being mean.
~ Tove Jansson
Märkvärdigt att en så stor och långdragen besvikelse så kvickt kan glömmas for en ny förälskelse men så var det.
~ Tove Jansson
Det var en som kom til mamma og sa: "Deres datter er usedvanlig, hun snakker aldri stygt om noen." Jeg husker det, jeg husker det helt tydelig. Men hvorfor? Stolte jeg på dem? Eller var det bare et spørsmål om å tilgi?
~ Tove Jansson
Doesn't do a body any good to withhold forgiveness. The devil is the only one who stands to gain anything from that.
~ Tracie Peterson
I want to believe in a new thing, Lord. I want that more than anything. I want to forget the old things—the bad and ugly things that have sent me here. Please let me see your hand in all of this. Let me see the path through this wilderness.
~ Tracie Peterson
I'm no preacher, but I do know that God doesn't strip away His love when we make mistakes.
~ Tracie Peterson
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be had in it.
~ Tracie Peterson
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be
~ Tracie Peterson
forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be had in it.
~ Tracie Peterson
But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.
~ Tracie Peterson
Doesn't do a body any good to withhold forgiveness. The devil is the only one who stands to gain anything
~ Tracie Peterson
It was time to lay his painful life upon the altar and let Jesus heal his hurt. It was time to come home.
~ Tracie Peterson
Words spoken in haste cannot be taken back. And while they may be forgiven, the memories will linger to warn the heart of future encounters.
~ Tracie Peterson
God knows I've needed enough forgivin' in my life. I love you, and love sometimes comes in pain as well as joy.
~ Tracie Peterson
She didn't want to. She loved you. She loves you now. Yes, she hurt you and she made a terrible mistake in leaving you. But your father made mistakes, too, and you will, as well. We all make bad choices - decisions that would better be left to rot in the bottom of the barrel. But we can't undo them. We can only move forward.
~ Tracie Peterson
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.
~ Tracie Peterson