Quotes About Forgiveness

Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat out denial of the gospel of grace.

Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.

The Earth forgives the previous year every year.

Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.

As delineated in the biblical book of Leviticus, Israel's atonement was achieved, year after year, through the sacrifices brought on that day by the high priest.

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.

Even if you're right you have to forgive. It's a principle that works, whether you believe in God or not.

One of the things I'm trying to get better at is apologizing when I make mistakes. That's been a big priority of mine.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.

When I left prison, I had to figure out how to embrace my past.

I don't ever want to go back to prison.

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.

I went to prison; therefore, I've been rehabilitated, and now I want to get on with my life. I have paid for what I did, end of story.

Anytime you have a family member getting out of prison, there's always drama.

I think at some point I would like to meet my dad. He's in prison in the U.S. for life, so it's about figuring out where he is stationed and making time to see him.

Prison, I don't want to go back there again.