Quotes About Forgiveness

How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evenings? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. But I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved.

Agape love is the decision to keep loving and seeking the best for someone even when we don't feel like it, even when that person sins against us.

Hi lover," he says to me, completely forgetting what happened before. He knows who I am. He knows that I am the one person who he loves, has always loved. No disease, no person can take that away. (p.205)

Forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza.

It takes someone really brave to confess they're wrong and try to make it right" -Pete

You should have died

Lord bless this land, and all who inhabit it. Bless the earth. 'Tis borrowed from you after all. Let the work be fit worship to You. Grant us safety as we work. Grant us favor against any untoward spirits. Jealousy. Greed. Bigotry." Chance paused. "Even such as shadows my own heart. Forgive my tresspasses as I forgive.

But what would it look like if we parented a generation of young people to define themselves by what they did do? What if they were defined by their actions of justice and mercy, forgiveness and love, strength and courage, generosity and humility and faithfulness? What if they were a generation who lived in the world and still proclaimed these things by their very lives?

It's the pressing on toward the goal that is important, not simply trying to look perfect or be perfect. And it's also important to forget what is behind us, because we cannot change our pasts. We can, however, look forward and fix our eyes on Jesus as we listen to His direction.

When we refuse to forgive others of their wrongs - even blaming them for our circumstances - we cripple ourselves from moving forward.

Why don't you just call her? Mitch turned to find Lance standing in the doorway, arms folded across his chest. He sighed and asked is it that obvious? Lance grinned. You look just like I felt when Kate left me. And trust me when I say, if she loves you, she'll forgive whatever you did. (Chapter 13)

How do we live in this world where friends disappear for years and years and reappear as if nothing has happened?

You need not hate them, for that hurts you too,' she explained. 'It is sufficient to laugh at them.

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

I let myself be led out, but at the doors of the Great Hall, I turned. "I will never forgive this," I swore, and Nefertiti knew it was meant for her. "I will never forgive this so long as the sun sets on Amarna!" I screamed.

Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.

Have you forgotten," she said in a furious whisper, "that he nearly killed us? That he threw my quiver in the stream, and threatened to snap my bow?" It was unclear which she considered worse: threatening them or her bow.

DEATH freezes everything. Whatever you did or didn't do, whatever you said or left unsaid: none of that is ever going to change. You have no more chances to say sorry or make things right. No more chances for anything except regret.

Try to enjoy every day, but know that you will not. Try to forgive others and yourself. Forget the bad stuff, remember the good. Eat cookies, but not too many. Challenge yourself to do more, to see more. Make plans, celebrate when they pan out, persevere when they don't. Laugh when things are good, laugh when things are bad. Love with abandon, love selflessly. Life is simple, life is complex, life is short. Your only real currency is time—use it wisely.

Sorry," I said. "Don't be sorry." She sent a sneer in the direction of Colin who'd rejoined his friends on the other side of the theatre. "The fact he's still breathing isn't your fault.

I took it back: he didn't just hate himself down deep. He'd made plenty of room in there for me, too.

Forgiveness is not contingent upon what someone else does or doesn't do.

Any reasoning that leaves somebody alone to wallow in their own guilt went against the gospel of reconciliation.

Father, forgive me for neglecting to meet with You every day. Time away from You is time away from my source. I need You, Lord. Especially now. Help.