#forgiveness

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourselves are not as fallible as those who, in any instance, seem most at fault. Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#fault #wisdom #forgiveness

Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul’s journeying. ↗

— Guy Gavriel Kay

#love #forgiveness

As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#fellowship #forgiveness #faith

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#forgive #happiness #love #forgiveness

My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#grace #mercy #forgiveness

All of us, all human beings, are basically inclined or disposes toward what we perceive to be good. Whatever we do, we do because we think it will be of some benefit. At the same time, we all appreciate the kindness of others. We are all, by nature, oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others' generosity to their meanness. And who among us does not prefer tolerance, respect, and forgiveness of out failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment? ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#religion #forgiveness

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are. ↗

— Stephen King

#ghosts #past #forgiveness

When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we become ourselves we reach right back to the time when we were conceived out of our parents’ passion. We murder their lives. There can never be any forgiveness. ↗

— Witi Ihimaera

#guilt #parental-love #sexuality #forgiveness

Grigsby had looked at him askance. “Why is it,” he said, “that I have the distinct impression you’re not surprised by this news?” ‘Surprised by the fact that the reverend is first and foremost a human being? Surprised by the fact that every human being, reverend or ribald, can be undone by capricious circumstances? Or should I be surprised by the fact that a man who teaches love and forgiveness can love and forgive? Tell me, Marmy, exactly what it is I should be surprised at? ↗

— Robert R. McCammon

#love #forgiveness

Forgiveness is the best thing you can do for your well-being ↗

— Consolee Nishimwe

#love #motivational #forgiveness