On Love and Forgiveness
The highest respect you can show people is to let them take responsibility for their own actions. Love has this power, the power to let people be responsible for hurting us. … When we really love people with respect, we let them be accountable for what they do to us. And then we face the […]
On Confession and Forgiveness
The marvelous thing about sacramental confession is that when absolution is given by the priest as God’s representative, the offense is wiped away. We are not to dwell on it any more, but to go on afresh with our lives, knowing ourselves forgiven, restored, loved. My tendency has often been to go back and dwell […]
Something to Ponder
For a person with no forgiveness in his heart, living is a worse punishment than death. —Miyagi San, The Karate Kid II
Children and Their Parents
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. — Oscar Wilde
Forgiveness vs. Anger
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. — Cherie Carter-Scott
On Forgiveness
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. — Mahatma Ghandi
On Forgiveness
When we forgive, we free ourselves from the bitter ties that bind us to the one who hurt us. — Claire Frazier-Yzaguirre