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Quotes About Forgiven

I want you to know that even though Ron forgave me, it does not mean that he forgot what I did. His forgiveness was a gift that I did not deserve or earn. However, I did need to earn his trust.
~ Nancy C. Anderson
yet there are days when I feel that a certain brightness is tentatively returning to Barcelona, as if between us all we'd driven it out but it had forgiven us in the end.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!
~ Diane Lane
I am seen by You under the sky, and my offenses have been forgotten by You--but I have not forgotten them.
~ Thomas Merton
I felt that the man who strove for dignity, nobility, and honour should have his task made as difficult and as hazardous as possible, and that in particular he should be forgiven no lapses in style.
~ Kenneth Burke
What would release be? Being forgiven? No, never forgiven, never only forgiven.
~ C.K. Williams
The Sermon on the Mount proves that sin is a condition of our inmost being; although our sinful nature is atoned for in the cross and our failures freely forgiven, we must never willingly cultivate habits that Scripture condemns.
~ Gene Edward Veith Jr.
But I've forgiven Hugh, because if I don't forgive him, there is no hope for forgiveness for someone like me.
~ Ilona Andrews
One of the Bible studies her group had gone through contained a whole section on forgiveness and how important it was. It asked, if we truly possess forgiveness from God, can we give that forgiveness to others? And if you're not ready to forgive another person, can you really say you're ready to be forgiven by God?
~ Chris Fabry
Opening the book is a quotation from the National Conference of Catholic Bishops that sums up the Prager-Telushkin view: "It was Judaism that brought the concept of a God-given universal moral law into the world. . . . The Jew carries the burden of God in history [and] for this has never been forgiven.
~ George Gilder
What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
~ Louis Dudek
Today, I ask to be forgiven for it all as I forgive others. Today, I choose to see the world and all people with the eyes of love, acceptance, and peace.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
I hope that in the afterlife we will get a chance, each of us, to say our sorries to the people we have wronged.
~ J.M. Coetzee
It is said that repentance and atonement erase the past.
~ Ted Chiang
I've never been that cute kid that was forgiven for being naughty.
~ Richard C. Armitage
For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
No one will ever know it and a sin that's hidden is half forgiven.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Asking forgiveness is not an admission of cowardice and of sin, It is to show that having inner peace is far more important than pride especially if they think that you have wronged them in any way.
~ Sun Fire Elements
Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.
~ Jimmy Savile
It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men
~ Charles Williams
On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
~ Laura Schlessinger
So when the friends we love the best lie in their churchyard bed, we must not cry too bitterly over the happy dead; because, for our dear Saviour's sake, our sins are all forgiven; and Christians only fall asleep to wake again in Heaven.
~ Cecil Frances Alexander
I am FREE from unforgiveness and strife. I forgive others as Christ has forgiven me, for the love of God is shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost. (Matt. 6:12; Rom. 5:5.)
~ Charles Capps
I think he was just doing his best, getting along by going along with my mother, whose piety and evangelical fever had preoccupied her family since the last century. She knew no other world - God the Tyrant and supplicant humanity crawling on its belly to be forgiven for sins they never knew they'd committed. 'It's no sense defying the LORD,' she told me. 'He's got all the coons up one tree.
~ Thomas McGuane