#forgiven

She feels like she betrayed her sister. We all do. Please, Kylie, forgive us? I was told to get down on my knees and beg if need be,” said Seph. I couldn’t help but laugh. I crossed my arms and put a stern look on my face, “Beg,” I commanded. ↗

— Micalea Smeltzer

#kylie-lyons #forgiveness

Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories seemed to be covered in gossemer, fading behind a curtain of time and forgiveness. ↗

— Karen Fowler

#mothers-and-daughters #novella #short-fiction #forgiveness

If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#god #harm #telling-the-truth #forgiveness

Mr. Blatchford attacks Christianity because he is mad on one Christian virtue: the merely mystical and almost irrational virtue of charity. He has a strange idea that he will make it easier to forgive sins by saying that there are no sins to forgive. Mr. Blatchford is not only an early Christian, he is the only early Christian who really ought to have been eaten by lions. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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The word's forgiveness... Look it up. It's what Jesus has in store for you but I won't no matter what! ↗

— Ashton Shepherd

#forgiveness

We live in a society that shuns guilt, hardly knows it. It is drummed into us: "Don't feel guilty." No one wants to pay the price of reconciliation, of atonement, of forgiveness. ↗

— Robert Dykstra

#psychology #forgiveness

Lord, forgive us for the times we have read about Gethsemane with dry eyes. ↗

— Frederick S. Leahy

#jesus #theology #forgiveness

Forgive me,' the woman says. 'I think I've interrupted you in a private moment.' 'Well,' I reply, instead of yelling something to the effect of :'No kidding lady, I'm in the bathroom!' 'Were you praying?' she asks. 'Sort of.' 'That's what I thought,' the woman says with a nod, 'which is why I spoke up. I like the idea of answering prayers,' she says. 'Plus, I figure I'm so old, I could have been God's babysitter. ↗

— Robin Epstein

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After all, how many of our todays and of our tomorrows do we want to give our yesterdays? It is one thing to be victimized by another. It is quite another to victimize ourselves because we cannot learn from the past or forgive. Those who choose to live in the past, to live in the land of regret and complaint, do so at the sacrifice of their todays and their tomorrows. ↗

— John Lewis Lund

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Granny was right,' I said. 'When you forgive someone it does make you stronger. It makes your heart bigger than your hate. ↗

— Jack Gantos

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