Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.
What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?
Rosalie had never been one to question or accuse, just to forgive -- but I guess everyone had their limits when it came to tolerance levels, and I’d crossed the line.
The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.
It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him.
We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless in the principle of forgiveness to the powerful.
We just move on, don’t we, with traitors still amongst us? But there was one thought that wouldn’t go away. If I loved him, I would forgive him.
I used to think how lucky she was to have me, but now I realize that’s backwards. A spirit of gratitude yields patience, love, and forgiveness.
Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship.
Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly... lead the way!
You need to understand something. Forgiveness isn’t an emotion. It’s an action, and it’s a choice. It’s the choice to not let the past affect how you feel about her.
Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...
We're a team. It's part of our job to help each other out, and to forgive each other quickly. Otherwise, we'd never get anything done.
If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt.
Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.
Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.
...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.
