Quotes About Forgiveness

I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

All I knew was that hate was so deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

I've accepted Christ as my Savior.

I wonder what they'd do if they knew the truth about my high life and my low life and all the demons in between.

If you cling to the axe you're grinding, eventually you'll only hurt yourself.

I had finally come full circle. Except for continuing to tell my story and spreading the Word, a great part of my life was over: the delinquency, the running, the war, the imprisonment, the drinking, the nightmares, the greediness and desperation, the unhappiness. I was completely satisfied with my test of forgiveness and more than ready to move on.

There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not," Dr. Graham said. "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us," and I sat straight up in my seat. How had he known what was in my mind? Then he said, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Before, as much as the hate poisoned me, I think it gave me a kind of satisfaction. I believed hating was the same as getting even, but those I hated didn't even know my feelings. All I did was destroy myself with my hate.

My forgiveness was so authentic and total that I looked forward to seeing each of them. I longed to look into their eyes and say not only "I forgive you," but to tell them of the greatest event of forgiveness the world has ever known when Christ on the Cross, and at the peak of his agony, could say of his executioners, "Forgive them father, for they know not what they do.

One day I knew the war would be over, but I wondered how long the remains of war would last in me and in them even after the bombs had stopped falling and the guns were silent. What I feared most was that my generation would teach the hatred and resentment I was learning at the hands of the Japanese to our own children and the cycle of disaffection and violence would never stop.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved," so I took Him at His word, begged for His pardon, and asked Jesus to come into my life.

All I knew was that hate was as deadly as any poison and did no one any good. You had to control and eliminate it, if you could.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

He was the wolf, and she was the rational hare, forgiving and accepting him as he was.

As I forgive myself, it becomes easier to forgive others.

each of us is doing the very best we can at this very moment. If we knew better, if we had more understanding and awareness, then we would do it differently.

Knee Problems: Stubborn ego and pride. Inability to bend. Fear. Inflexibility. Won't give in. Forgiveness. Understanding. Compassion. I bend and flow with ease, and all is well.

I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free." This affirmation sets us free.

We need to understand that they were doing the best they could with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge they had at that time.

Love erases even the deepest and most painful memories because love goes deeper than anything else.

I do not encourage you to blame your parents. We are all victims of victims, and they could not teach you something that they did not know.