'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills or it won't work.
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
When there's that forgiveness present and compassion it just helps you live so much easier.
On a level of simple personal survival understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.
I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.
Forgiveness really is so misunderstood as well as the power it can release in an individual.
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
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.
We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history then for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections admit our failures and plead to God for clemency.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right by other people as well as myself that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.
I realized that it's all really one that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego Tijuana Cuba.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
We think that forgiveness is weakness but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.
I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry because they come to me out of love and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
Forgiveness is about empowering yourself rather than empowering your past.
We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.