Quotes About Forgiveness

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.

God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

If God is willing to be born in a barnyard, then expect him to be at work anywhere - bars, bedrooms, boardrooms, and brothels.

If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.

You have to work at relationships. You can't just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.

We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.

When people are mean to you, win them over with kindness. If it doesn't work, you still win.

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.

There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you'll keep resentment far away.

I believe in forgiveness I believe in trying to work with people.

Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.

You can only prove your love to God when you love people that do not deserve your love

You get divine blessings when you love and cherish both those who love and hate you

Never become bitter just because you were rejected by men

If you don't take care of the disenfranchised and outcasts of your city, they will come knocking on your door one day with revenge and bitterness

You wouldn't do things to hurt others if only you understood the principles of God

Don't be a hater and call it love.

There are so many things we can have in this world, but only 10 percent of it changes the condition of someone's heart.

God shall shine through the person you are and not the mistakes you made.

Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.

I always forgave my students, like Jesus.