Quotes About Forgiveness

Guilt doesn't follow the rules of time. Most things fade with time, regret, eyesight, memories. But guilt feeds on time, and as it feeds, it grows, and when it runs out of time, it begins to gnaw on the guilty.

If ever the day comes when he wakes beside me and my name doesn't come to his lips, when that bewildered look in his eyes doesn't fade away, I'll remember for us both. I won't let him forget the life we built together. I won't let him go.

While forgiveness is an important part of the gospel, the good news goes beyond that. It amounts to the claim that the kingdom of God—the direct availability of God himself and His rule—is now available to anyone who will enter it through trust in Jesus.

3. Love and fault-finding never go together. The more you love, the less you judge.

You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident," Butch said. Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. "You broke my window." "Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it." "Twice." "Thus proving that he and I are outstanding marksmen.

That's what love is all about, babe. Forgiveness.

Sometimes we're going to fight, but we're never going to give up on each other.

There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.

Instead of finding fault with the fire, I gave thanks for the metal to take the temper and hold it.

Jason spoke in a rough voice. "Hating you, hating anybody else, wouldn't make my life any better. My parents think tearing other people down, tearing me down, makes them bigger. But I know it doesn't. It makes them smaller. And I am not going to be like them.

Do not hate," her father spoke firmly. "I have told you. Hate no one, hate nothing. Oppose those who do wrong, but do not hate.

hate harms no one so much as the one who hates. Do not grant even the worst person such a victory over you.

blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

I pray for him. It's very difficult to dislike someone for whom you are praying.

Holding on to anger and resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

love we give and receive is all that matters and all that is remembered. Suffering disappears - love remains

Forgive and Move on As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. ISABELLE HOLLAND Award-winning author of 28 books

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

You will treat yourself and others according to the way you think God feels about you.

They say love is blind, but for me it's the opposite. It makes me see the good in him, too, which is why I can never hate him.' --Mom (Fran)

Well I'm looking at history," she said, pointing at me. "You used to be a friend, but now you stink as a friend! I came here to give you a second chance and you make me smell the crotch of an old book.

You'll see...Everyone foolishly goes through hating their past—when they should realize it is the one true thing you have.

Granny was right,' I said. 'When you forgive someone it does make you stronger. It makes your heart bigger than your hate.