Quotes About Forgiveness

sometimes love is more of a decision than it is a feeling. Sometimes you just have to choose to remember the good times and forget the rest.' 25 Every word Tom Walking home in the sunshine of the late afternoon, I felt curiously both drained and elated as I went over the events of the past few weeks, trying to make sense of them.

I find myself whispering an apology to the person I used to be.

In a way I couldn't believe I'd carried a torch for her this far - I should have used it to set fire to her years ago.

There is nothing more debilitating than regret, and no anger worse than that which is directed at yourself.

Jonah 3:1: "The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time

hate makes you a prisoner, not just of them but of yourself.

The proof of true repentance is immediate restitution.

Jesus knew that everybody contained potential. He never eliminated someone just because of their past. Born of a mother who conceived Him as a virgin, He knew what it meant to have a questionable background. He rose above it.

Faith is the manifestation of courage, confidence, kindness, compassion, foregiveness and humility combined.

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

Jesus did thunder warnings of suffering & condemnation, but primarily to those who were convinced they were healthy & in no need of Him. To the weak, diseased, hungry & sin-bound, He had another message. "Come to me, all you who are weary & burdened...

We practically always excuse things when we understand them

Now one day, maybe I can forgive John Andersen for what he done to these trees, but I ain't gonna forget it. I figure forgiving is not letting something nag at you—rotting you out.

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

And when God finally judges you, I hope He does Basing on the love you have given me Because i know you might be free. Mimi.D.

a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.

The Lord forgives, but the world does not forgive.

The Lord continues to be committed to us even when we sin. He continues to love us. In some ways, the nature of his love for us resembles an enduring marriage, or how a father or mother may love a misbegotten child. Hosea was being called to be like God when he had to love a person who would have been difficult to love. We are difficult to love when we sin; a sin is always a transgression against the Lord.

that a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.

Casey meant it when she said, 'Forgive us for our debts as we forgive our debtors,' because they were for her the hardest words to live by, and by saying them, she hoped they'd become possible. Like Ted, Casey would never discuss her ambivalent views on religion. She was honest enough to admit that her privacy cloaked a fear: the fear of being found out as a hypocrite" (Free Food For Millionaires, p.100-101.)

to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.

Listen, if people don't like you, it's not always your fault. My brother told me that.

Girls think they'll have the upper hand because these kinds of men seem so pliable, when in fact, the girls are the ones who end up paying bitterly for their mistakes. The Lord forgives, but the world does not forgive.

What did Joseph say to his brothers who had sold him into slavery when he saw them again? "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.