Quotes About Forgiveness

Inez? I'm sorry I bit you," he said with sincere regret, and then inspiration made him add, "Bastien made me do it.

My ability to heal cannot be conditional on them wanting my forgiveness but only on my willingness to give it.

But it is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.

Brokenness to redemption, where mercy and grace kiss both sides of our face. Brokenness where we are split open. Redemption where God knits us back together. Mercy when we don't get the punishment we do deserve. Grace when we get the lavish love gifts we don't deserve. So here we are.

Staying here, blaming them, and forever defining your life by what they did will only increase the pain. Worse, it will keep projecting out onto others. The more our pain consumes us, the more it will control us. And sadly, it's those who least deserve to be hurt whom our unresolved pain will hurt the most.

It is necessary for you not to let pain rewrite your memories. And it's absolutely necessary not to let pain ruin your future.

In the meantime, we must hold fast to the truth of who God is and His unchanging nature: God is good. His plans are good. His requirements are good. His salvation is good. His grace is good. His forgiveness is good. His restoration is good.

Forgiveness is the weapon. Our choices moving forward are the battlefield. Moving on is the journey.

I forgive this person for how their actions back then are still impacting me now. And whatever my feelings don't yet allow for, the blood of Jesus will surely cover.

You can't fake yourself into being okay with what happened. But you can decide that the one who hurt you doesn't get to decide what you do with your memories. Your life can be a graceful combination of beautiful and painful.

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive."1

No need to bend under the weight of past mistakes. That kind of bending breaks us.

But weeping with them and rejoicing with them does not mean trying to take control of their out-of-control choices and behaviors. We can forgive them. But we cannot control them. And we should not enable them.

Forgiveness releases to the Lord your need for them to be punished or corrected, giving it to the only One who can do this with right measures of justice and mercy.

I only needed to bring my willingness to forgive, not the fullness of all my restored feelings.

God's eyes are on me. His face is not against me. And even if others appear to be against me, I must make sure in my reaction to them that I extend grace and honor God.

God made us For Giving. God made you For Giving. God made me For Giving.

grace is such a crazy notion to the heart of the one rejected. But if we will step over the hurt feelings and turn from the box of bitter rot, we are then free to pick up the box of sweet, pure lilies.

It's necessary for you to not let pain rewrite your memories, and it's absolutely necessary not to let pain ruin your future.

But Jesus doesn't refuse to reach out to us in the middle of hurts and heartbreaks and mess-ups.

What happened yesterday can't be changed, but it can be forgiven. That's your miracle in the mess.

Bitterness, resentment, and anger have no place in a heart as beautiful as yours.

A Jesus girl who rises up and unexpectedly gives grace when she surely could have done otherwise reveals the power and the mystery of Christ at work — in her life and in the world.

This isn't an indication that your healing isn't working. It's just an indication that you're a human still holding on to some hurt that needs to be resolved.