#iv

Forgive me, Father, but I'm not Catholic. ↗

— Lani Diane Rich

#forgiveness

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#forgiveness

It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#humility #forgiveness

And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors.' To remit debts is to renounce our own personality. It means renouncing everything that goes to make up our ego, without any exception. It means knowing that in the ego there is nothing whatever, no psychological element, that external circumstances could not do away with. It means accepting that truth. It means being happy that things should be so. ↗

— Simone Weil

#forgiveness

Oh, Lily", mormora, scuotendo la testa. "Ne so parecchio dell'amore. So cosa significa volere una ragazza, sognarla e desiderarla con tutta l'anima. Ne so abbastanza da non confondere cosa è reale e cosa invece è solo frutto della mia fantasia." Gira un pochino la testa per guardarmi, e io mi ritrovo a dire: "Ti-tipo?" "Tipo quando lei piange e il mio cuore va in mille pezzi e tutto quello cui riesco a pensare è come farle dimenticare la causa della sua tristezza." Il suo viso è impassibile, senza l'ombra di un'emozione. Le sue parole, e tutto il sentimento che sottintendono e che mi travolgono grazie al legame, rendono tutto molto chiaro. "Questa è realtà." La mia voce è appena un sussurro quando gli dico: "E la fantasia?" "Credere che prima o poi anche lei proverà le stesse cose per me. ↗

— Tera Lynn Childs

#forgiveness

The greatest threat to Christ-centered witness even in churches that formally affirm sound teaching is what British evangelical David Gibson calls ‘the assumed gospel.’ The idea is that the gospel is necessary for getting saved, but after we sign on, the rest of the Christian life is all the fine print: conditional forgiveness. ↗

— Michael S. Horton

#forgiveness

To rest. Not to wakeup. Forgive me, Mimmi. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#forgiveness

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#forgiveness

People fail each other all the time, Mo, and they forgive each other, and start again. It's a question of knowing the other person's limitations. Knowing what's fair to expect of them. Knowing what's fair for them to expect of you. ↗

— Erica O'Rourke

#tolerance #forgiveness

If I’m right,’ she said, ‘and you have all sorts of juicy information in that dossier of yours, you’ll know that I am an abnormally forgiving person, even of those who have used me and hurt me more than one person deserves to be hurt. But right this second, I am looking forward to the day you rot in hell. ↗

— Ally Blake

#forgive #forgiving #hurt #mad #rot-in-hell