#forgive

A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kingdom; a thief at the door of death asked to die like a thief and steal Paradise. One would have thought a saint would have been the first soul purchased over the counter of Calvary by the red coins of Redemption, but in the Divine plan it was a thief who was the escort of the King of kings into Paradise. If Our Lord had come merely as a teacher, the thief would never have asked for forgiveness. But since the thief's request touched the reason of His coming to earth, namely, to save souls, the thief heard the immediate answer: 'I promise thee, this day thou shalt be With Me in Paradise' (Luke 23:43) It was the thief's last prayer, perhaps even his first. He knocked once, sought once, asked once, dared everything, and found everything. When even the disciples were doubting and only one was present at the Cross, the thief owned and acknowledged Him as Saviour. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christ #forgiveness #heaven #jesus #paradise

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his. ↗

— Catherine II

#forgive #forgive me #give me #good #good lord

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#children #could #forgave #forgive #i

We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins. ↗

— Joseph Prince

#bore #christ #forgiven #good #our

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws. ↗

— George A. Romero

#factors #few #films #flaws #forget

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility. ↗

— John Rowland

#am #around #ask #attention #connecticut

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#amusing #dying #find #forgive #friends

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life. ↗

— Lee Tergesen

#always #back #caused #character #everybody

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

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Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better. Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to him with a broomstick. I see the hate in his heart and the people he had yet to kill before pneumonia gets him at eighty-three. I see the dead kid's mom unable to sleep, pounding her fists against her face in grief at the moment I was burying her son's hand. I see the pain I've caused. I see the man I could have been, and the man I was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and I sweep through Sam's body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone. ↗

— George Saunders

#compassion #empathy #forgiveness #hatred #change