Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we've made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

A-tone-ment-its a chance to fix the unfixable and to start all over again. It begins when you forgive yourself for all you've done wrong, and forgive others for all they've done to you. Your mistakes aren't mistakes anymore, they're just things that make you stronger.

If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

The only way to atone for the past is to do something meaningful in the present.

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

I began to realize that when people experience the love of God, it casts out their fear and frees them from guilt.

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

Come up with a few examples from the Bible – or from history, or from whatever – that kind of show, you know, how when you've made a mess, you can do the best you can to clean it up, you make it right the best you can, and you keep going.