Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.
I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.
I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.
When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.
Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it can never forgive the preaching of a new gospel.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.
Sometimes, where a complex problem can be illuminated by many tools, one can be forgiven for applying the one he knows best.
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely gi