Quotes About Forgiveness

Give us grace when we hurt each other . . . to recognize and acknowledge our fault, and to seek each other's forgiveness and yours.

There's no other way I can think of to put it—but when you let him move into your life, the garbage moves out. The anger starts to go, and the resentment, and the fear.

Thank you, God, for second chances

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.

Love is a constant act of forgiveness.

In every way, un-forgiveness makes us the victim—

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb. When you let God fill you with His love and forgiveness, the things you think you desperately want to hold on to start falling away  . . . and we hardly notice their passing.

I'd like you to know that 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.

Easter is never deserved.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.

History writes the word 'Reconciliation' over all her quarrels.

Then Gertie kicked Ida Belle under the table and she lifted her gaze to mine. ''I'm sorry I made you ride naked in my car wearing a trash bag,'' she said, not sounding the least bit sorry. ''No, you're not,'' I said

Walter asked me to marry him again," she said finally. Gertie gave me a knowing look. Bingo. She'd called that one correctly. "I'll bake him a chocolate cake," Gertie said. "It's his favorite. Might take some of the sting out of the rejection." Ida Belle looked over at us. "I didn't say no.

Regret, which is guilt without the neurosis, enables us ... to move forward instead of back.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.

All my life I have felt events to be the result of my own sins.

Jei vaikyst?je tav?s nemyl?jo, tu nemok?si myl?ti vaiko. Meil? reikia patirti anks?iau. Gali ?skaudinti iš nežinojimo.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

The heart's reasons seen clearly, even the hardest will carry its whip-marks and sadness and must be forgiven. As the drought-starved eland forgives the drought-starved lion who finally takes her, enters willingly then the life she cannot refuse, and is lion, is fed, and does not remember the other. So few grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance. The world asks of us only the strength we have and we give it. Then it asks more, and we give it.