Quotes About Forgiveness

What's positive is moving from a place of growing in faith to really feeling more grounded in faith, to understand that faith is hard, that I'll stumble, that I'll make mistakes, that I'll sin. But, that's part of being on a faith path; it's part of being a human being.

My first call is always to my dad. It's really rad. What had initially drove my dad and me apart - all my stunts and antics - has brought us together, closer than we've ever been. My dad's been a huge part of my team.

It is essential to forgive. Otherwise it stunts the growth.

I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on cock-ups, I say. You don't learn by your mistakes - at least I don't - so best to blunder on making fresh ones.

We all do stupid things.

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

I am guilty of stupidity, arrogance, and greed.

Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain't nothing, don't believe him. And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him.

Just because you lost me as a friend, doesn't mean you gained me as an enemy. I'm bigger than that, I still wanna see you eat, just not at my table.

If you have a sin problem you don't run from the church, you run into it. p.73

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

You give away your power when you don't forgive.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

Bitterness is as toxic as stage 4 cancer.

Half the time, the very thing you think that's going to destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to anybody with skeletons is dust them off every now and then—as long as your closet ain't full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

A good first step to getting to this peaceful place is to write down your hurt. Let it all out. All of it. Once you're through writing it down, ask God for help. You want the path to forgiveness to be cleared. You want to let go of the mind loop of blame. You want to let go of the fire of anger. You want to stop tasting the bitterness of betrayal and hurt. Once your path is cleared…the sky is the limit.

Write a letter to the person who hurt you. In it, express how you felt in the past and how you're trying to forgive and heal. If it's authentic, wish this person well. (You don't need to send the letter.)

Jesus. They had made mistakes. Some had done terrible things and yet were still able to find their way to higher.

deeper lessons will be revealed; they've shown me God's hand in closing some doors and opening others; they've helped me release my past to create a future of hope; they've given me the tools to offer forgiveness, and put me back on the path whenever I lose my way. Strong roots are the faith from which grows the undeniable understanding that everything in life, the good and the bad, is a God-given opportunity to stand in the light. Everything.

I was able to forgive Emmitt, that the fuel firing me was no longer anger but love and compassion. That's when my life really turned around. Once that happened, I met true success.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

The war is over—the rebels are our countrymen again.

It takes a minute to like someone, an hour to love someone, but a lifetime to forget someone