Quotes about Forgiveness

The Church calls people to be not spiritual mediocrities, but great saints, and this is why its moral ideals are so stringent. Yet the Church also mediates the infinite mercy of God to those who fail to live up to that ideal (which means practically everyone). This is why its forgiveness is so generous and so absolute. To grasp both of these extremes is to understand the Catholic approach to morality.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

A true friend sees past your excuses to the real reason it's not your fault.

A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new a day with no mistakes in it

What a spineless thing I must be not to have even one enemy!

Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we, Anne? I want to know. It's pretty safe ain't it?

It's a dreadful mistake to cherish bitterness for years... hugging it to our hearts like a treasure.