Procrastination is not laziness, I tell him. It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.
The true lover yearneth for tribulation even as doth the rebel for forgiveness and the sinful for mercy.
Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.
For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the church.
Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
When someone stabs you in the back and then apologizes, accept the apology, but don't give him the knife back to do it again!
And you shouldn't blame yourself. Learn from it. Grow from it, but don't allow it to consume you again. Easier said than done, I know.
But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.
I've found that neither spouse is 100% innocent during a fight. There is always something we can apologize for.
Never limit oneself based on the limitations of others. If you can not inspire them, leave them to be inspired by your lead
If our hearts are filled with unconditional love and true forgiveness, we are sure to experience miracles in our lives.
If you are self-aware of what you are going through, you would be in a better position to understand others, and affect people around you.
Forgiveness before one’s death, isn’t just about asking and receiving it, it’s also about forgiving others.
You forgive yourself for what you've done, Edda told her. You admit mistakes. You learn from them. And you improve.
God needs loving, accepting, and compassionate people not accepting of sin, but accepting God’s forgiveness of sin for all who repent.
And though all seems forgiven, it is not forgotten. It's there like a lump beneath the carpet, a scar below the skin, a body hidden under the earth.
To forget someone, you need to stop loving them first. To forgive someone, you need to stop hating them first.
