Quotes About Forgiveness

To learn how to love your enemies, read the Bible. To learn how to survive them, read the Art of War.

I kept making you cry... didn't I? - Hatori Sohma

I want to live with all of my memories, even if they're sad memories. I believe that if I stay strong, someday I'll overcome the pain, and then I'll be glad that I have those memories. I believe that there are no memories that are okay to forget.

In the end, I'm always like this. Whether I get involved with people or not...before I know it, I've done something wrong and made someone upset. I'm even disappointing myself. How many times? How many more times do I have to let myself down for this to stop?

Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.

and there are tons of people I hate so much that I wouldn't mind taking them out. But killing them wouldn't get me anywhere - that's the conclusion I always come to. If I'm going to pay for it in the end, I might as well let them live.

for societies are built as much on what people choose to forget as what they remember

Perfect love is perfectly patient.

Repentance is a rescuing, not a dour, doctrine.

As to remedying our personal mistakes, we face no hindering traffic jams on the road of repentance. It is a toll road, not a freeway, and applying Christ's Atonement will speed us along.

No part of walking by faith is more difficult than walking the road of repentance. However, with 'faith unto repentance', we can push the roadblock of pride away and beg God for mercy. One simply surrenders, worrying only about what God thinks, not about what 'they' think.

He did not let yesterday hold tomorrow hostage. There was a willingness on his part to forget. Forgetting facilitates the generosity that springs from Christlike charity.

Te amo, Señor. Ven, trae tu luz y expulsa la oscuridad. Trae tu verdad y expón las mentiras. Hay muchas cosas en mí que me impiden dar y recibir amor. Límpiame con tu sangre. Libérame de esas mentiras que me impiden conocer tu amor. Quiero caminar hacia la luz en el camino que has elegido para mí.

Sobre la autocompasión del hermano mayor de la parábola del hijo pródigo: queremos la compasión y la simpatía de las personas más de lo que deseamos ser libres, más de lo que queremos avanzar y dejar atrás nuestras dificultades. Si dejamos de lado nuestra autocompasión, tenemos que enfrentar que somos responsables de nuestras propias vidas.

Nos convertimos en el hermano mayor cada vez que respondemos a los dolores de la vida fuera del amor de Dios. En lugar de dar perdón y misericordia a los demás, construimos muros de protección a nuestro alrededor. Nos aferramos a nuestra amargura y falta de perdón como si fueran una forma de defensa, pero no lo son. En realidad, son muros de prisión, que nos alejan de la vida de libertad y amor que Dios quiere.

A veces hacemos promesas innecesarias a Dios y luego pensamos que nuestra promesa es la base de nuestro perdón. Pero Dios nos pide que renunciemos a nuestro derecho de demostrar que somos dignos del amor que nos da. Este engaño nos pone en una situación de mucha vulnerabilidad.

uncovering hidden unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment in our heart is also the door to freedom.

if we were judged by the things we most regret, no human being would be worthy to sweep the floor.

glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday and dream of who you can be tomorrow...

God sees only the righteousness of Jesus when He looks at me because all my shame, pain, and blame were taken by Jesus, and I was given His goodness in exchange.

Confessing your sin will not diminish His love but will actually tap into His abundant grace for your life.

Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins.