
“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”
Variant: Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.”
“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”
“Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past.”
"Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars"
Poetry
A version of his staple "Hope Speech," quoted in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (1982), p. 363
A Curmudgeon (1961).
“There is hope in forgiveness”
Source: A Sweet and Bitter Providence: Sex, Race, and the Sovereignty of God