Quotes About Forgiveness

Él cubre y perdona lo que nosotros solo hemos podido ocultar. Perdona lo que nunca podríamos ser lo suficientemente buenos para hacerlo de manera correcta.

I forgive ____ for ____, and whatever my feelings don't yet allow for the blood of Jesus will surely cover.

The hurt was caused by someone else, but the resulting feelings are mine to manage.

Those who cooperate most fully with forgiveness are those who dance most freely in the beauty of redemption.

You're giving yourself too much credit, the only reason you have any grace (to give or receive) is through Christ.

Love can be unconditional but relational access never should be. Notice that the words sin and iniquity

Another act of forgiveness means even more healing and clarity. Another intentional brushstroke of beauty slowly replacing the darkness with hues of healing light.

It's easier to construct a more palatable life story—where I can draw straight lines from each hurt of the past to the healing I later experienced—than to face the raw truth. I prefer to neatly match each hard part of my testimony with the soft place I landed in the middle of God's grace, forgiveness, and restoration as proof I am walking in freedom.

had been massively damaged. There was repentance. There was forgiveness. There was an acceptance that, just because something wasn't right for a long time, it doesn't mean it can't be made right over time. There was some healing we both did individually. And then there was the decision that it was time to heal together. There was a beautiful vow renewal.

Just because we extend forgiveness doesn't mean we keep that person in our close-knit circle.

Refuse to wallow in the depressing angst condemnation brings.

Confession breaks the cycle of chaos inside of me. Forgiveness breaks the cycle of chaos between us.

Sin didn't, and doesn't, have a chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness we call grace. When it's sin versus grace, grace wins hands down. (MSG)

Grace given when it feels least deserved is the only antidote for bitter rot. I

Forgiveness isn't an act of my determination. Forgiveness is only made possible by my cooperation.

Let your past rejection experiences work for you instead of against you by allowing them to help you sense the possible pain behind other people's reactions.

Most people are walking around with way more hurts from their past than we can ever imagine. Pretty much everyone has at some point been deeply hurt by someone. That's your "me too.

The gravity of living in a sin-soaked world will always try to hold us back from living loved.

I've felt the heavy weight of regret and I don't want to return there.

What happened yesterday can't be changed, but it can be forgiven. That's your miracle in the mess. The voices of condemnation, shame, and rejection can come at you, but they don't have to reside in you. That's your miracle in the mess.

I forgive Art for betraying my trust. And whatever my feelings don't yet allow for, the blood of Jesus will surely cover.

1 Samuel 25:25

With the fullness of God, we are free to let humans be humans—fickle and fragile and forgetful.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret." In other words, taste a little bit of the shame of letting it all rip before you find yourself drowning in gallons of unwanted regret.