about forgiveness Quotes

“God doesn’t care how well you can preach about forgiveness… what He looks at is your behavior when presented the opportunity to practice it.”

“When I was a little girl my understanding of revenge was as simple as the Sunday school proverbs it hid behind. Neat little morality slogans like, do un to others and two wrongs don't make a right. But two wrongs can never make a right because; two wrongs can never equal each other. For the truly wronged real satisfaction can only be found in one of two places, absolute forgiveness or mortal vindication. This is not a story about forgiveness.”

“Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender”

“Sometimes we learn the most about forgiveness when we realize how desperately we need it ourselves.”

“Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off.”

“I had thought about forgiveness more and more...I knew it wasn't a light that could be switched on in an instant-it grew day by day, week by week, month by month-but something was changing inside me now during the hours when I sat alone and tried to calm my feelings. A seed had been sown, and I sensed that, just as I'd once faced a choice about whether to use violence on the night when I stared at the gun, I know had another choice: to remain trapped in the bitterness of the past or to find peace in the present.”

“I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.”

“Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.”

“Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness, redemption, or the futility of revenge.”