Quotes About Forgiveness

Perhaps one of the lessons of any nation's history is that the people are indeed responsible for the sins of the fathers; they are not guilty, but responsible for setting right the wrongs done in the past.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — NORMAN COUSINS

Non-retaliation, for Paul, is not an option for peacemakers in Christ; rather, it is the way of Christ.

He kept the gun in his lap as he drove, and he prayed. It was the strangest prayer he'd ever offered. He asked for strength to do the wrong thing, and then forgiveness for doing it.

If you can't forgive someone you're close to for making a mistake, then why do apologies even exist?

A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God

All the promises of forgiveness have to do with sins we have already committed, since God is dealing with us in space and time, and He only forgives us for what we have actually done. It's as if you have a debit card with a prepaid amount of one million dollars, but the account is not charged until you go out and use it. In the same way, the forgiveness of all of our sins has been prepaid, but that forgiveness is not applied in advance. It is applied as needed. Already

Simply stated, there is not a single verse anywhere in the Bible that pronounces us already forgiven for our future sins (meaning, sins we have not yet committed). Not one verse. Nowhere. Not even a hint of such a concept.

It's clear that our present sins need present forgiveness, not for the purpose of salvation but as part of our relationship with the Father.

The hyper-grace teachers are simply wrong when they claim that all our future sins are forgiven the moment we are saved.

I should not have lied, but I did. Later, those lies came back to haunt me, bread cast on the water, tenfold.

But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.

Kimse mükemmel de?ildir. Ba?kalar?n? affetti?inde asl?nda kendini affedersin.

When I moved back home to northwest Florida after being a cop and a cleric in Atlanta, I never would've imagined I'd become a prison chaplain. But God works in mysterious ways, and when I fell from grace in Atlanta, this is the grace I fell into.

If people knew that I really am what I say I am,' he said, 'you know they'd never forgive me.' 'Don't worry,' I said, 'Your lack of a secret is safe with us.

Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but has not solved one yet." ? Maya Angelou Quote

Human beings are made to forget things, otherwise they couldn't tolerate the pain of life. They say that time heals, but it's not time, it's some inner power all people have.

What is true forgiveness? M: It is understanding that each creation has their own method of learning and producing, and they're entitled to mistakes, as I am. The growth process isn't perfect, and you must understand that so you don't always remember people for the hurt you imagined from them in the past.

And as you see, poor Idris was...persuaded,shall we say? Yes,persuaded to tell me about Tyre and his own route back to Al-Kal'as from there. Faysal, reveal to her his pain." The Captain of the Guard dragged Idris forward. Faysal then ripped away his shirt, and Aminah gasped. Angry scars laced his bare chest, some of the burns still crusted and weeping. Tears tumbled down Aminah's face, but Idris did not raise his head to see them. "Forgive me" he mumered.

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it.

Do not expect to be applauded when you do the right thing, and do not expect to be forgiven when you err. But even your enemies will respect commitment - and a conscience at peace is worth more than a thousand tainted victories

Remember, your dad loves you and he always wanted more for you than he ever wanted for himself. And if he pushes your buttons, just tell yourself that he's a master at doing that because he's the one who installed them in the first place.

She gives off an aura of enormous sadness, though her powers of humor and forgiveness seem to run equally as deep.

Perhaps we really are surrounded by the past, made prisoners of it. No matter how far we travel, how hard we try to forget, the scarred tree forever stands by the side of the road, if only in our minds. The only way to drive by is to set the past straight, once and for all, by remembering.