Forgiveness Quotes
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Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.
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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
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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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This is the God of the gospel of grace. A God who, out of love for us, sent the only Son He ever had wrapped in our skin. He learned how to walk, stumbled and fell, cried for His milk, sweated blood in the night, was lashed with a whip and showered with spit, was fixed to a cross, and died whispering forgiveness on us all.
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Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness.
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When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.
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Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.
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It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has forgiven him. And there can be forgiveness without pardon.
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.
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Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.'
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Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.
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Forgiveness is the final form of love.
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New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.
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Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.
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Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.
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And love was like forgiveness – deep and patient. It would be waiting for her on the other side.
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Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.
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The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.
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Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.
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No amount of hate or pain can stand with truth in the face of genuine love and forgiveness.
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There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
