Quotes about forgiveness

Be courageous enough to forgive yourself never forget to be compassionate to yourself.

At the mercy of graceMy mind renewed.My soul restored.My spirit rekindled.

Some days you feel like you're the worst of sinners others like you're the most righteous person on earth. I am convinced that the former is when you're closest to God.

Forgive your past because it the vehicle through your process and from this point forward your life is made of 100% future Caterpillars always look up despite having no wings... and butterflies don't waste time crying over the legs they lost or dwelling on on the ground.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency to forgive them is cruelty.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

Never REJECT yourself due to the sins you have committed. REGRET will do nothing REPENT and do something!

Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance we sail in the peace its boundless waters provide.

Hell is a place reserved for people who want their enemies to rot in Hell for sinning against them. Heaven is a place of amnesty where the trespassers have forgiven their trespassers.

I forgive you. Case closed.” Is not the final answer love is the final answer no matter how long it may take – The Book of Hosea!

How do you forgive those who’ve betrayed you? Move on from the hurt they caused? Does forgiving mean you’ve given them a pass?... Forgiveness is tricky I’ve often felt like I can’t… But if you don’t… you’re trapped.

You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself then thank everyone who provides an opportunity.

Past experiences are doubtful food for Christians a present coming to Christ alone can give us joy and comfort.

It may not be an easy thing to live in sweet fellowship with all those with whom we come in contact but that is what the grace of God is given to us for.

With weapons we can kill our enemies with love and forgiveness we can win them.

To ask to be forgiven is in part to acknowledge that the attitude displayed in our actions was such as might properly be resented and in part to repudiate that attitude for the future and to forgive is to accept the repudiation and to forswear the resentment.

Jesus came to save me from myself. He came to save me from self-effort. He didn't just die for my sin to give me forgiveness he rose again to give me life.

Jesus is not a religious leader He is a Savior. You can enjoy His extravagant love even right after you fall into your extravagant sin.

A grudge is like a cesspool forgiveness like a flowing river.

You forgive me coz you are great I'm too bad coz I still love you.

Forgiveness: It’s not because they deserve it it’s because you do. Sometimes forgiveness is about loving yourself enough to move on.

Better to be blinded by love than hate one forgives and the other refuses.

God never tires of forgiving us we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

Forgiveness is mandatory reconciliation is optional.

Forgiveness is no easy task it takes a lifetime of remembering to move on

You may not be able to do anything about how you feel but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions...but you can choose to let that offence sink you down or not....

How accommodating love is it forgives everything.

He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and love his enemies but the joyful feeling of love and forgiveness of his enemies filled his soul.

The first step to empathy and compassion is realising the similarities between yourself and those that are suffering the first step to forgiveness is realising that we're all human and we all share the same capacity for fallibility and foible the first step to growth is to recognise the value of things that are outside your current mental frameworks so that you can grow into them.

The universe does not work in phrases don’t focus on the commas just wait for the full stop.

To shame our sins He blushed in bloodHe closed His eyes to show us GodLet all the world fall down and knowThat none but God such love can show

One more soldier of the Cross has taken up his crown one more beloved member of our church has gone to the great assembly above one more Christian has triumphed in the living Faith one more flower is planted and harvested in the garden of God's Kingdom.

Our ability to forgive is a direct measure of our hopeOur patience is a measure of our humilityAnd most importantly: Our ability to listen with patience and understanding is the measure of our love Because love is the measure of a man… or woman.

It is only when one knows the unutterability of the name of God that one can utter the name of Jesus Christ it is only when one loves life and the earth so much that without them everything seems to be over that one may believe in the resurrection and a new world it is only when one submits to God's law that one may speak of grace and it is only when God's wrath and vengeance are hanging as grim realities over the heads of one's enemies that something of what it means to love and forgive them ca

Forgive to set yourself free love to set the prisoner free.

The beginning of forgiveness is often exhaustion. You're pooped thank God.

There is hope for the soul that sin to be forgiven by the Righteous One.

The Aramaic word for “forgive” means literally to “untie.” Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings free yourself from that person’s ugliness.

Hatred is exhausting. You must constantly remind yourself why you hate someone and waste needless energy to keep hating them.Forgiveness you only need to do it once!

You can’t control other people’s behavior you can only ever control your own.

A true friend doesn't have guts they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.

I'll tell you what God did do. He sent Jesus to die on the cross so you could be saved. To forgive your sins. That doesn't sound like condemnation that sounds like hope.

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

There is no amount of sin a loving heart cannot forgive.

Forgiveness is all about love. Where love abounds, there forgiveness will not tarry

If someone can't forgive, it's because he does not love

Forgiveness brings us closer to those who have hurt us and helps them to experience the forgiveness and love of Jesus through us who forgives them.

It takes courage to forgive love and allow yourself to embrace it again, its like discovering wings you thought you've lost

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. Wisdom, compassion, and courage are essential ingredients for love. To love other people we must begin by forgiving them. If we do not bring forth the part of us that is capable of love and compassion, it will destroy us.

May all people from every nation, find power of God’s grace.

Life is ever changing.We are ever transforming.

Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off.

The Lord is calling us to turn from evil. And return to Him in repentance.

Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.

When we forgive someone, we don’t pretend that the harm didn’t happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness.

Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.

Love from novels isn't true love: it ends where it should begin. True love, deep love, grows up with time, throughout days of dullness and days of storms. It leaves in one's heart a rainbow of tenderness and forgiveness which illuminates forever the beloved one.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." ~Samuel Johnson

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

There are an incalculable—even infinite—number of situations in which we can practice forgiveness. Expecting it to be a singular action—motivated by the sheer imperative to move on and forget—can be more damaging than the original feelings of anger. Accepting forgiveness as pluralistic and as an ongoing, individualized process opens us up to realize the role that our own needs play in conflict resolution.

Dear God, please take the stains off my heart. If there’s even an ounce of pain I feel that someone caused me in the past, I ask that you wash it away. Give me strength, show me forgiveness is the healthiest option for me, and set me free. I pray you give me peace today and every day, allowing me to totally leave my past behind. In Jesus’s name, I pray, amen.

Being content to walk with God brings peace in the midst of uncertainty. It brings wisdom in the unknown. It brings contentment in any situation and grace in every circumstance. It brings mercy and forgiveness in sin and blessed assurance in condemnation. It brings freedom from captivity. Walking with God brings light and air into the pit, as God reaches down to rescue us when we fall.

Forgiveness is really just another word for freedom.

Life’s too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what’s right. Right by your own heart.…Forgiveness sets you free.

What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom. As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our hearts, we continue to suffer. Forgiveness allows us to move on.

In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication. To be unshakeable is the mark of courage. To be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity. To forgive is the mark of strength. To govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

The capacity to solve Life's problems is based on our abilities to learn to think above and not below the problems.

All humans are carrying invisible torchlights directing us to our destinies called our beliefs.

All they had to do was let go, and they'd be free. But they held on.

Forgiveness is the one gift you don't give to others. Rather, it is the gift you give yourself, so you can finally be free.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare.

Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God? Think only of repentance, continual repentance, but dismiss fear altogether. Believe that God loves you as you cannot conceive; that He loves you with your sin, in your sin. It has been said of old that over one repentant sinner there is more joy in heaven than over ten righteous men. Go, and fear not. Be not bitter against men. Be not angry if you are wronged. Forgive

Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.

I don’t have to let anyone use me. I don’t have to bend the truth. Even if I’m not ready to forgive just yet, I don’t have to be tied to my scars, to the people who wounded me, or to the anger and fear that grew out of it. I can be myself and be honest and not be afraid. Not of getting hurt or of hurting others.

I refuse to live life with unsettled differences”.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

Oh, Myr," he chokes out. "I hate having to ask this of you..."He glances towards the car again, and I crouch down in the shadows, hoping it's too dark for him to see whether the window is open or closed. The woman pats his arm, cradling her hand against his elbow."You know I'd do anything for you and Hil," she says. I like her voice. It's throaty and rich."You'd do anything?" my father repeats numbly. "Even now? After -?""Even now," the woman says firmly.

The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.

Practice fear and you will fail. Practice love and success will prevail.

In the interests of friendship, I hope you’ll forgive me what I’m about to do.”“Forgive you wha—”My sentence was cut off as he clamped his mouth over mine, kissing me deeply....“Ready to make a scene?”He raised an eyebrow. “Do I have a choice?”“Not really. To quote something someone said to me recently, in the interests of friendship, I hope you’ll forgive what I’m about to do.” I drew back my hand and slapped him across the face. The smack of flesh striking flesh echoed through the hall. Conver

Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive.

Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.

Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

A while ago?” Anaxantis asked. “Yes, he raped me a while ago. Exactly nine months and two days ago. What's that? Nine months or nine minutes. It's the same. And it is in the past, you say? Then why is it still happening, every day, every time I close my eyes? Every time I hear someone behind me, and I don't know who it is? How is it that I get an almost irresistible urge to kill anyone who happens to touch me unexpectedly? Tell me, Hemarchidas, how do I forgive, let alone forget, something that

If you notice the day we are judging and looking down on ourselves that day we are very edgy and judging others too. Our mood reflects what we feel inside. Judgment brings so much negativity and blocks our energy. We are not able to give our 100% to anything whether work or relationship. On the other hand self compassion brings harmony and has ripple effect as all love begins with love within. So try consciously to practice self love and forgiveness daily. It will bring a lot of peace into your

A wise man once said that the best definition of insanity was performing the same action over and over again, expecting different results."Father Peter stopped smiling. "The same could be said of you. What makes you so sure you're right? And so sure I'm wrong?""The difference is that I made a mistake once, out of ignorance," Tim said. "Everything I've done since then has been to try to make amends.""To earn forgiveness.""To protect the innocents." Tim smiled, "And yes, to earn forgiveness.

All of us suffer in life, but the ones who bring the suffering find the greatest pain. The wounds we inflict upon others are the most painful for us.

Loving self and others is an every second of every day of every week, of every month, of every year gift that should not be taken for granted or withdrawn for petty arguments and misunderstandings. No one knows the day nor the hour that we or a loved one will meet our expiration here on this earth. Time to make time to heal, amend and/or forgive broken relationships, to live your dreams without regret and love like there is no tomorrow for when tomorrow is no longer there...memories will be grea

We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance.Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance.

I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out of the tangle because everything is tangled up…it’s much easier to keep up the fight between good and evil, holy and profane, us and them. But as awareness grows, these opposites begin to calm down in

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

I've never heard anyone say "I wish I hadn't forgiven.

Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts and actions--what will you reflect?

Take, this day, my handand promise to absolvewhat my forefathers and I didto you and your kin.