Quotes About Forgiveness

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

You cannot amputate your history from your destiny, because that is redemption.

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.

Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

History is not hatred.

If somebody tells you 'History will never forgive you,' just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won't be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly.

I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.

True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

Christianity is not about religion. It's about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It's about finding joy and finding home.

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.