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Quotes About Forgiveness

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.
~ Yann Martel
And I survived because I made a point of forgetting.
~ Yann Martel
If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on.
~ Yann Martel
It's important in life to conclude things properly.Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
~ Yann Martel
I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way the number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let it go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said, but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.
~ Yann Martel
It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That
~ Yann Martel
Friar Barnadine: Thou hast committed—Barabas: Fornication—but that was in another country;And besides, the wench is dead.
~ Christopher Marlowe
The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.
~ Christopher McDougall
Vigil couldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.
~ Christopher McDougall
People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.
~ Christopher Paolini
Forgiveness is associated with a variety of traits that are of value for personal and societal well-being. Forgiving people appear to be slightly lower in a variety of negative affects, including anger, anxiety, depression, and hostility. Forgivers also tend to endorse socially desirable attitudes and behavior, and self-ratings of the disposition to forgive correlate negatively with clinicians' ratings of hostility and passive-aggressive behavior.
~ Christopher Peterson
Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.
~ Christopher Pike
qué es un amigo? Alguna vez he compartido una frase que me gusta: «Un amigo es la persona que conoce todos tus defectos y que, a pesar de eso, te sigue amando igual».
~ Unknown
You didn't always have to give it back. And in that cold, somber chapel, Dan Kelly discovered that there were some things that you could not be forgiven for, and those were the things that you carried into the next life, if there was such a place; and if there was no next life nor any God, the consequence was the same: if you were not forgiven, you would die with regret.
~ Christos Tsiolkas
Let go of your past, and look to Mine, where I died for you. Yield to Me, and I will make you a true Knight of the Prince.
~ Unknown
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.
~ Cicero
Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life." "How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?" Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. "Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford." "Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned around and rescued you. You know women—changeable as a day in April. Sometimes we just can't make up our minds.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
I have to believe that people can change. That people deserve a second chance.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
I learned a long time ago that it's not our fault if our parents are monsters. We can't take responsibility for that, or we're twice damaged. All we can do is try to go forward in a different way.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
That's the thing about guilt," his father said. "It always seems like there's enough to go around. The only ones who don't take a share are the ones who are actually guilty.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
But sometimes we get the maddest at the people we love the most.
~ Cinda Williams Chima