I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.
I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.
In my experience, it's quite an empowering thing to forgive someone because you take control and take ownership of that feeling, of that resentment, and that power that they have taken from you, and in some way, you end up being able to turn it around.
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.
There's no control in life, is there? There's only one who's in control, and He'll take me when He wants me. I don't want to know about it. It's none of my business. But when it happens, I just ask that it won't be painful and that He forgives me my sins.
