Quotes About Forgiveness

Many people think a Christian is someone who believes in God and tries to be good, or someone who lives by the Ten Commandments or the Sermon on the Mount (as if anyone could!). But what we and our children must understand is that a Christian is a person who recognizes that he or she is a sinner deserving nothing less than the terrifying judgment of God and who takes refuge only in the blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ.

It stops hurting so much when you realize how unconstructive hate is.

Then and now, broken sinners are the kinds of people God chooses to save, to bless, and to help.

once we enter into a relationship with Christ through His shed blood, we have been eternally cleansed. But we allow our lives to become soiled by this world or by our own natural choices, we need to return to be washed once more.

Only after many years will I recognize that I, too, have survived a loss, and not necessarily intact. The depression and multiple sclerosis awaiting me will suggest that changes in the structural level have already occurred by the time I learn to forgive Daddy for abandoning me without even saying good-bye.

God's Love is a Love that keeps on loving even when the object of that Love ceases to please or even tries to stop that Love from coming.

But his letters . . . I took them with me, let the "ounces" cry aloud. I tried to leave, and could not. They would not be left; it was not my fault. I will not be scolded.

God offers grace and forgiveness for a contrite heart. But society offers cruel consequences and never forgives.

It's Jesus, not we ourselves, who gives us righteousness and redemption. So being unlikable doesn't mean we aren't saved.

I feel more at peace with being angry than practicing forgiveness. That never was an honest emotion for me. It was always someone else's concept of what I should do.

Thomas just nodded his head in agreement, and then suggested I write a letter to myself as a child and address those painful issues.

It's okay to be angry. Your mother should not have allowed this to happen....

Trying to forgive all these years, I had suppressed my anger and memories because I couldn't forgive if I acknowledged my experiences

Stop digging.... Yesterday is dead and gone.... Try and forget.... Forgive and Forget.... Don't get worked up.... Anger corrodes.... Everybody lives with injustice at some time.... That's life!... They did the best they could.... Making mistakes is human.... Forgive! Only through forgiveness can you heal.... Forgive ... Forget ... Forgive ... Forget ... Forgive ... Forgive....

For forgiveness does not resolve latent hatred and self-hatred but rather covers them up in a very dangerous way.

My forgiveness had not solved my latent hatred or self-hatred.

Everyone tells me that I should forgive her. But how can I forgive someone who has never asked to be forgiven; somebody who's never even acknowledged any wrongdoing, someone who continues to do the same thing?

Well," he said with a sigh, "psychology for years used to counsel to forgive. But we are beginning to recognize that it isn't always possible or even healthy to do that. I believe that sometimes it is important not to forgive, and to hang onto a healthy sort of rage at what happened,

I can't let her hurt me again. My pain it too great. I can't forgive her.

To the little girl it wasn't funny. She felt wistful and a bit sad that it had taken so long to be free of being responsible for the happiness of others, free of guilt, and free not to forgive—and free to choose not to even see her mother.

How do you forgive someone who has never asked to be forgiven; somebody who has never even acknowledged any wrongdoing, someone who continues to do the same thing? How do you forgive an offender and still protect yourself from re-injury?

It is my experience that you must heal in order to forgive.

One of the most dangerous things about forgiveness is that it undercuts your ability to let go of your pent-up emotions.

Forgiveness is not a commodity that can be handed out. It is a relationship that must be entered into. — Karl Rahner