Pastoral Resources

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

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.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

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.

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.