Quotes about Forgiveness

There is not justice in this world. Father, forgive me wherever you are, but this world has brought one vile abomination after another down on the heads of the gentle, and I'll not live to see the meek inherit anything.

You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always a chance you'll want to use it later.

if you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you'll go crazy if you think it's all punishment for your sins.

If his guilt made him a tyrant before men, it made him like a child before his God. Not a helpless or pleading child, but a petulant one, the type of tough boy who's known too little love and is quick to blame others for his mistakes.

Forgive me, Dellarobia. It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

I am losing faith in such a simple thing as despising an enemy with unequivocal righteousness.

The truest truth. For my whole sixteen years I've rarely thought I was worth much more than a distracted grumble from God. But now in my shelter of all things impossible, I drift in a warm bath of forgiveness, and it seems pointless to resist. I have no energy for improving myself. If Anatole can wrap all my rattlebone sins in a blanket and call me goodness itself, why then I'll just believe him.

You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always the chance you'll want to use it later.

Most families would sooner forgive you for going to prison than for moving out of Lee County.

It is not what others do or even our own mistakes that hurt us the most; it is our response to those things.

Proactive people make love a verb. Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return.

newborn into the world. If you want to study love, study those who sacrifice for others, even for people who offend or do not love in return.