Quotes About Forgiveness

The best way to forgive is to forgive without showing forgiveness in your eyes, but in the heart.

The day the devil asks for forgiveness is the day he ceases to be considered the wicked one. It's said that God loves to forgive.

The fact that Jesus died for your sins is actually encouraging the criminals to do whatever they want.

The famous teaching of turning the other cheek to your enemies is not even suitable for women, because it is far from reality and common sense.

There is no peace without forgetting past events.

Those who hate me have to pay the price of frowning every time they see me.

True love only comes from ordinary people. They are the ones who give even to those who do not deserve it.

We are quick to forgive and forget about the past, or our memories when we find the present satisfying.

We are taught not to hate anything for no reason. Reason is useless in the realm of feelings, because you don't need reason to love either.

We have the concept of the prodigal son on Earth. But what if the devil applies the same in heaven. To be forgiven for going against the laws of God.

We love to be forgiven, but we hate to forgive others; unless they fall on their knees to worship us.

You must, therefore, know your limits of self-defence; so as not to cross the line of mercy and forgiveness.

Your doubt about loving someone shouldn't become your excuse for acting heartless towards those you meet along the way.

Your past, present and future sins will be placed upon your shoulders and not on the shoulders of the man who left us long ago.

Love is an ongoing debt that we owe each other, a debt that should never be paid off. Paul made this clear when he wrote to the believers in Rome, "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law" (Rom. 13:8). If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.

Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart" (Ps. 24:3–4). We need to be pure before God by turning from our sinful ways, receiving forgiveness through Christ, and walking in the Spirit. (See Romans 8:3–4.)

Varones y mujeres deben respetarse y amarse mutuamente. Jesús reforzó este principio cuando dijo que uno de los mandamientos más grandes era: "Amarás a tu prójimo como a ti mismo" (Mateo 19:19). Si realmente comprendiéramos esta verdad, habría más paciencia, entendimiento y perdón entre los hombres y las mujeres.

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more.

we have developed a corollary that is neither love nor forgiveness—namely, tolerance. The problem with this is clear: I can "tolerate" you without it costing me anything very much. I can shrug my shoulders, walk away, and leave you to do your own thing. That, admittedly, is preferable to my taking you by the throat and shaking you until you agree with me. But it is certainly not love.

Following Christ in the power of the Spirit means bringing to our world the shape of the gospel: forgiveness, the best news that anyone can ever hear, for all who yearn for it, and judgment for all who insist on dehumanizing themselves and others by their continuing pride, injustice, and greed.

We are like a frightened bird before him, shrinking away lest his demand crush us completely. But when we eventually yield—when he corners us and finally takes us into his hand—we find to our astonishment that he is infinitely gentle and that his only aim is to release us from our prison, to set us free to be the people he made us to be. But when we fly out into the sunshine, how can we not then offer the same gentle gift of freedom, of forgiveness, to those around us?

The fact is that when we forgive someone we not only release them from the burden of our anger and its possible consequences; we release ourselves from the burden of whatever it was they had done to us, and from the crippled emotional state in which we shall go on living if we don't forgive them and instead cling to our anger and bitterness.

9'So this is how you should pray: Our father in heaven, May your name be honoured 10May your kingdom come May your will be done As in heaven, so on earth. 11Give us today the bread we need now; 12And forgive us the things we owe, As we too have forgiven what was owed to us. 13Don't bring us into the great Trial, But rescue us from evil.

we recognize that the world as a whole needs, longs for, aches and yearns and cries out for forgiveness—for that collective, global sigh of relief that means that nobody need seek vengeance ever again; that nobody will bear a grudge ever again; that the million wrongs with which the world has been so horribly defaced will be put right at last;