Quotes About Forgiveness

Look, this boy's been kicked around all his life. You know-living in a slum, his mother dead since he was nine. He spent a year and a half in an orphanage while his father served a jail term for forgery. That's not a very good head start. He's had a pretty terrible sixteen years. I think maybe we owe him a few words. That's all.

It is said that resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for your enemy to die. There is no room for such a waste of energy in the service of God.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair

Know I don't hate you Don't wanna fight you Know I'll always love you But right now I just don't like you Cause you took this too far

Who I am hates who I've been.

Stop right there, that's exactly where I lost it See that line? I never should've crossed it Stop right there, I never should've said that It's the very moment that I wish that I could take back

Judge not lest ye be judged... for we all are sinners. But in the end Christians are only judged for the things they did do for God.

Do not confront me with my failures, I have not forgotten them. - Nico (Royal Tenenbaums)

Blessed are the merciful…" The fourth step is to be merciful. ¬ Mercy contains three components: 1. Forgiveness of others 2. Compassion for the suffering of others. 3. Purity of intent in action and in speech – never is one's primary intent to hurt others. Cruelty and selfishness will assuredly block the path of spiritual growth.

Whenever enyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

In a truly global world, the renunciation of violent reprisal is bound to become, in a more and more obvious way, the indispensable condition of our survival.

The Cross is the equivalent of the Ephesus stoning. To say that Jesus identifies himself with all victims is to say that he identifies himself not only with the adulterous woman or the Suffering Servant but also with the beggar of Ephesus. Jesus is this poor wretch of a beggar. ——————————————————

I'm sorry if I seem overly sensitive." "I'm sorry if I misunderstood your intent." "I'm sorry that we need to have this conversation." "I apologize if I misunderstood what happened." "I regret that I have to bring this up." "Please forgive me for feeling this way.

Beyond the pain, anger and unforgiveness, there is only one thing; love. This is where the magic happens

guess?" Naomi sank into a chair. "Jerome," she

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. — Søren Kierkegaard

And that's okay, but you don't have to erase your past for a different future. This is a wonderful place, especially because I know it lay the foundation for the amazing woman you are today.

All of you are hurt. You're hurt because of the secrets. The secrets that have festered inside.

If you don't have strength, read Psalm 73:26. If you need help with forgiveness, try Acts 3:19. If you need to see a way out of no way, try First Corinthians 10:13.

It is surely ours to combine these elements of mourning for sin and joy in our salvation in one complex and composite experience which keeps us perpetually humble and yet perpetually joyful too.

The socon [social conservative] Bible seems to have had the references to forgiveness and gentleness expunged somewhere along the line, and Jesus has become the Lord of Nastiness rather than the Prince of Peace."