Quotes About Forgiveness

The cure for shame will always be found in how we become connected to God.

The important thing was the shedding of blood. Sounds barbaric, but the Old Testament was reminding us that there was a significant cost involved in moving from unclean to clean. You didn't have to pay it, but it still had to be paid.

God does not forgive you based on the quality of your confession or your resolve to be a better person. But you keep thinking otherwise. Your standard is what you would do to someone like yourself, and chances are that you would not let the incident pass quickly. God, however, forgives, for his own name's sake. I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more (Isa. 43:25).

What is the way out of shame? It is the way of humility, not humiliation. It is the way of being known, not exposed.

You believe lies about God. Guaranteed. You think he can't see all things; you think he doesn't care; you think that he reluctantly forgives; you think that he is far away; you think that he loves many people but not you. Don't assume that you know him. Read the Gospels.

Since Jesus became thoroughly identified with sin, he would receive its wrath and judgment in our place. This meant he would experience the worst kind of rejection and alienation from the Father, and he would do this for us.

How does God move toward you?

If you know you have been forgiven, you will forgive and reconcile with others.

Deep change is rarely a matter of knowledge. It is a matter of repentance.

I didn't feel guilty about burning my mother's name anymore. I knew my hurt and hers were links in a long chain and if she hurt me, it was because she was hurt, too.

He who has charity is far from all sin.

A demon holds a book, in which are written the sins of a particular man; an Angel drops on it from a phial, a tear which the sinner had shed in doing a good action, and his sins are washed out.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Mais c'est faire un pacte avec le diable, car il perd son âme, celui qui veut être religieusement aimé. Elles m'ont obligé à feindre la méchanceté, je ne leur pardonnerai jamais ! Mais que faire ? J'avais besoin d'elles, si belles quand elles dorment, besoin de leurs adorables gestes de pédéraste, besoin de leurs pudeurs, si vite suivies d'étonnantes docilités dans la pénombre des nuits, car rien ne les surprend ni ne les effraie qui soit service d'amour.

In an instant, the pup's trustful friendliness was gone. The man had come on the Place, at dead of night, and had struck him. That must be paid for! Never would the pup forget,—his agonizing lesson that night intruders are not to be trusted or even to be tolerated. Within a single second, he had graduated from a little friend of all the world, into a vigilant watchdog.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

La culpa te cierra puertas.

I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.

You would be surprised at the healing power of a simple "I love you" from a dying parent to a child or vice versa. This is not always easy, of course, yet a lifetime of mistakes can be undone through forgiveness even at the end of a life.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect; he becomes an adolescent, the day he forgives them he becomes an adult

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

No quieres soltar la rabia ni los recuerdos dolorosos. Los acumulas en tus músculos en forma de contracciones que te dan la sensación de existir. Si los relajas, al desaparecer tu solicitud de ser amado, tus angustias de abandono o tus rencores, te sientes desaparecer. Crees, niño triste, que el sufrimiento es tu identidad.