Quotes About Forgiveness

More is achieved by love than hate. Hate is the downfall of any race or nation.' Josephine Baker

He thinks about trying again, and second chances. Sometimes there just isn't the opportunity or the willingness to make things better. Sometimes you can't simply have another go. You make a choice, and it's a bad one, and you're left with it. No amount of trying again will fix it. Don't expect anyone to feel sorry for you, to cut you slack; you made a mistake you'll have to live with.

I am sorry, Chapter Master,' said Attias, chastened. 'I meant no offence.' 'You caused none,' said Hadariel. 'You simply asked a question, and there is no harm in that. If ever a time comes when the Dark Angels see reason to avoid questions, we will have lost our souls.

In those moments of unnaming when we have lost ourselves, we must remember to return to our past redemptions to find God's mark of glory on our abandonment, betrayal, and shame. We wrongly believe that we will be happy if we can escape the past. But without our past we are hollow and plastic beings who have only common names and conventional stories. When we enter into our story at the point we lost our name, we are most likely to hear the whisper of our new name.

Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

We didn't chase her with scissors

When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.

Once we see that our salvation has never depended on anything we do, we have nothing to fear and nothing to prove. God in Christ has already provided every proof we need to be acquitted of every charge against us.

By grace, God helps those who not only can't help themselves, they don't even want to. By grace, what goes around stops at the foot of the cross, never to come around again.

buried somewhere deep inside their souls. When God found them hiding in the garden, they were clutching clumps of leaves against their groins and blaming everyone but themselves for their failure. God's sovereign grace blossomed in that new-fallen garden for the same reason grace fills people's lives today. The untamed God gives undeserved mercy to unresponsive sinners. God shows grace, not due to any human deed or desire, but

What left a mark No longer stings Because grace makes beauty Out of ugly things. U2, "Grace

Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve, and mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve.

Resentment has a way of metastasizing into bitterness, and bitterness has a way of curdling into the kind of anger that can doom a relationship.

Gerry, you peed on Weems's car!" I shrugged. It seemed like the thing to do at the time.

She could live without her past. She was better off without her past. But Ian couldn't live without his heart.

There was just something about the guy, the way he struggled with his faith, yearned to do the right thing in spire of the flaws that got in his way, that made her want to kiss him again~ Shelby Arroyo

After his train wreck of a life, he wasn't sure anything he did would be valued by God.

He and God weren't friends anymore.

If I've learned one thing, its that we can't live in regret. God doesn't want that for our lives.~ Barrett Thorn

They deserve forgiveness. Everyone does.

I'm sorry," he whispered against the pillow, and meant it. "I know." "I never . . . wanted to hurt you." "I know that too. Rest now. Get better.

You can't go back and change what happened, so why not just forgive yourself and try to make the best of things? Aren't you as deserving of forgiveness as anyone else?

Felt his lips, touching her forehead. "You're not going to die, Maeve. You're not going to die, because I am not going to let you die. Do you hear me? And if you give up and abandon me, so help me God, I shall never forgive you.