Quotes About Forgiveness

The ability to truly forgive is the richest tool of your soul. By releasing the negative energy that has been attached to you by the free will of another, you are unburdened of emotional stress and are breaking a strong karmic cycle.

Love, forgiveness, and compassion are always the route to take, not judgment, retribution, and spite. Something else to consider when thinking of a challenging family member is whether perhaps he or she is holding a mirror up to you. Do you share the characteristics of someone who angers you?

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt creep in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely.

Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.

Depersonalized Personalized Sin Breaking a rule Betraying a relationship Repentance Admitting guilt Sorrowing over personal betrayal Forgiveness Canceling a penalty Renewing fellowship Faith Believing a set of propositions Committing oneself to a person Christian life Obeying rules Pleasing the Lord

Step on my toe. Must I curse? I may. Must I forgive you? I may. Must I yell? I may. Must I smile? I may. What I do will reflect my character, but it is "I" who will act and not just react like a bell ringing when a button is pushed.

T was mine to shrink, withstand in time, For, while I sinned, I knew my crime. Oh! Wretched, wavering heart! As vain Thy wild resentment as thy pain: One thought alone expels the rest, One sole regret distracts my breast, O'ermastering and subduing all More than my crime, more than my fall: Are not shame, fear, remorse, forgot, In that one thought- He loves me not!

She ran off the hate she had for herself, ingrained since a young age from a mesmerizing array of influences: things her father said and did, things her mother didn't say and do, magazines, television, girls she went to high school with, a hundred men whistling at her on the street, America in general. She loathed herself, she forgave herself. She loathed them, she did not forgive them.

I knew that were I ever to emerge from my darkness to seek a more excellent way of living...this must be my first step: to choose to forgive. It was a dangerous and desperate step, but how I yearned for the respite it could afford - if indeed there were any respite to be had. p 233

And you know what? I found out that Joe Leonard wasn't the only one who had a scar because of me. I found out that the person's name I had been taking in vain all those years had scars because of me - and not just one. He was nailed to a cross through His hands and feet. He didn't just get hurt for me, He died for me. He did that to pay for my sins, and He did it because He loved me.

God's grace, he told himself firmly, is big enough to cover the blackest sins. It's strong enough to lift the heaviest load of guilt, to blow the dirt of shame from the darkest corner and scatter it to the four winds. It's good and bright enough to shine into a man's heart and clean out all the filth of the past forever and ever.

Forgiveness started with a decision and then became many choices, a way of life.) Still

being able to let go of hurting does not constitute a lack of compassion.

For the life and the future,it's more important to learn than to hate

When you raise a sword, don't think about who are you going to kill, but who are you going to spare.

Smart People no think about a bad past or what can happen, but look for a good future to reprobate the happen things and clear it with a smile.

Enemies are people whose stories you haven't yet heard and whose faces you haven't yet seen. —Irene Hasenberg Butter, Holocaust survivor, during an interview at her home in Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 13, 2013

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

Thank you, God, for loving me, and for sending your Son to die for my sins. I sincerely repent of my sins, and receive Christ as my personal savior. Now, as your child, I turn my entire life over to you. Amen.

Every saint has a past, the sixteenth-century poet had said, and every sinner has a future.

but I tell you now that it's not too late---no matter how deep the wound. (Regarding forgiveness)

One must begin somewhere, sometime, to let go of the bitterness, or be eaten alive and the marrow sucked out.

I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

Miss Louella says, 'Love whoever God sets down in front of you. Even the mean ones, 'cause they can sho use it.