Forgiveness Quotes
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
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The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.
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Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.
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Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
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Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.
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Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!
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When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.
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Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.
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Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you
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I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.
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The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.
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We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.
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It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.
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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.
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Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens.
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God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
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Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.
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Mercy is to care, and care very deeply about one another. It is to care to the point where we are prepared to be involved with the sufferings and adversities of others. It implies that I am prepared to put myself in the other person's place. It means that I shall try to really understand why they behave as they do, even though it injures me. It is a willingness to walk a mile in the other man's moccasins before I criticize his conduct. It is the extension of good will, help, forgiveness, compassion and kindness to one who may not seem to deserve it.
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Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.
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It’s hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself.
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Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
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When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.
