Quotes About Forgiveness

Now that Jesus has come and completed his work, he has made all things clean. The rules have changed. Evolved.

Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.

Atonement does not always directly help the one we have sinned against. It does not always help anyone at all. Had Boromir run of with Aragorn, he could have been of greater help in tracking the orcs after Merry and Pippin were captured than he was in giving his life to defend them.

Beware a nice mans scorned

she needed someone to hold her, but she couldn't bring herself to ask her husband, not after what she had done to him.

Something worth loving. But she could not love him as long as she hated herself. Her past wouldn't allow it.

An ounce of apology is worth a pound of resentment

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." —MAHATMA GANDHI

Requesting forgiveness: Don't do this immediately, because actions speak louder than words. To truly earn forgiveness, you need to sustain your corrective actions until they become part of who you are. At this point—and not before—go back to the person you've hurt and say, "Are you able to forgive me for hurting you?

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." —CONFUCIUS

Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note—torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." —HENRY WARD BEECHER

We forgive when we no longer need to blame; we forget when we no longer need to remember.

An ounce of apology is worth a pound of resentment and a ton of "acting out by underperforming.

We all have sinned and fall short of his holiness. That's why we need him. When he forgives me and comes into my life, he walks with me and gives me peace and hope — ironically enough, he gives me comfort — but I still have rough days. Sometimes they're rougher because I do trust Jesus. But it's not about having good days or bad days; it's about being his.

dead. We sinned. We blew it over and over. What was God's part? He did it all. He chose us, made us alive, lavished his grace on us, started us, and will complete what he started.

Understanding and truly accepting God's forgiveness is the incubator to a meaningful walk with Jesus. As we escape the dregs of compromise to walk in purity and obedience, we are free to grow on God's timetable if we ignore the lies of the unholy world. And only by avoiding faulty human logic can we give our lives over to the seeming risk of a God who is actually unable to be anything but faithful.

There is a reason God used the east and west to describe how far he cast your sin from you,' he said. 'If you go north, you can only go north so far until you're finally going south. And you can only go south so far until you're going north. But if you start traveling east, it keeps going east forever, and west just keeps going west. If you think about it, you're never going to go so far west that you're going east. That's how far he cast our sin from us.

From here on in, I rag nobody

Instead of revenge, transcend.

I spent the next couple of hours either walking around with a gelato in my hand or on my knees in church asking to be forgiven for the sin of gluttony.

I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive.

El pasado duele solo si dejamos que nos alcance

I want to be part of a church that, as the full-orbed body of Christ, reflects the radiant beauty and attractiveness of God's love, grace, forgiveness, salvation, and hope, for this life and for an eternity of fellowship together with one another as well as with him!

But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the truth of what we feel or the truth of our reality. Nor does it allow us to minimize the humanity of those who hurt us. Rather, we are asked to know ourselves enough that we can stay open to the truth of others, even when their truth or their inability to live up to their truth has hurt us.