Quotes About Forgiveness

Once a broken bone heals, it is often strongest at the point of the fracture. In the same way, God can take the shame of past failures and amazingly redirect their outcomes toward your future success.

By God's grace, he found me and saved me.

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.

When we truly know God, rather than living ashamed of our past of doubting God's love for us, we can daily enjoy his grace and unconditional love and acceptance. As our faith and prayer life grows, we'll see his goodness—even in our trials—and grow to forgive as he has freely forgiven us.

Rather than complaining about inconsequential little irritations, I'm asking God to get right to the root of the problem, to eradicate the dry rot and fix the cracks in my foundation. I need Him to show me how to love Him and how to love His people. Even the ones I don't like - even myself.

When I ask God to change my actions, that honesty about my own inconsistent behaviors forces me not to be so hard on other believers. Humble acknowledgment of the plank in my own eye gives me more patience with the specks in everyone else's (see Matthew 7:1-5). Instead of pointing the finger at others, let's allow God to examine us.

But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.

Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worry about sorting it out later.

somos lo que Dios dice que somos: sus hijos. Perdonables. Cambiables. Capaces. Moldeables. La única atadura que tenemos es la del infinito amor de Dios.

If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.

Los cristianos ateos podemos buscar la lógica de todo tipo de excusas posibles con tal de no perdonar. Sin embargo, los cristianos pueden encontrar en Dios la fuerza que les hace falta para luchar contra los sentimientos de ira, odio y amargura, y abrirse paso así de regreso a la cruz.

Deciding you should get divorced because you've run out of love is like deciding you should sell your car because it has run out of gas. No reasonable person would ever do that. You simply put more gas in your car and go on. If your marriage "love low" light comes on, pull over and start putting love back into your marriage. Once you've filled it back up, then you can go on. SOWING

That is who you are. God said so. You may fear you have screwed everything up, but the depth of your sin is not greater than God's power to forgive.

Indian Alzheimer's" - where you forget everything but the grudges.

I sometimes think that it's not our enemies that we resent in life, but rather friends we have who stood quietly by and did nothing.

no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused. 

revenge doesn't ever fit when there aren't any bad guys.

Kindness to a killer builds coffins.

Hurt him. Hurt him and save him

No one who beats his wife or children, spreads slander in a congregation, or harbors perpetual unforgiveness in his or her heart is full of the Spirit, no matter how many supernatural gifts he or she claims to have.

Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a good heart won't settle until things are set right and true.

I mean, I know people have always bin afraid of me. Kids specially, but old people too. Wary. They reckon I'm just half an animal with half a vote. That I'm no good. And I always used to think, why? They don't even know me. Nobody does. It never made sense. But then I realized, that's exactly why. That's all it is. It's so stupid, Charlie. But it means I don't hate them anymore.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.