Quotes About Forgiveness

She had never been drunk before, but believed that that was what had happened to her. She'd been drinking something made of orange juice and she'd been warned, but had not listened or could not remember having listened, and could not remember who'd warned her. She did not wish to name any names and to involve her friends or anyone for no one was to blame except possibly herself.

They said, Tell us. She said, Only what I know. They said, Tell us, so that justice can be executed. She said, I was drinking. I was to blame. I don't remember. How can I give testimony against him!

One day, Mom removed the soiled, torn prom dress from the hack of Marianne's closet where it was hidden. She hadn't needed to ask Marianne where the dress was. Found it, unerring, without wishing to examine it; wadded it into a ball and stuffed it in a paper bag with other household trash. Mom's eyes gleaming with tears, but she wasn't crying, nor was Marianne. Not a word uttered.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.

Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.

Mercy is the stuff you give to people that don't deserve it.

Why wouldn't we run to God. He's sooo good. God's not mad at anybody. He just wants to help us be the best that we can be.

God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.

Don't waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don't let them.

Sometime we get so addicted to murmuring about the past and blaming the past for everything that we miss our whole future. You're not going to enjoy your future, and you're not going to enjoy your right now, if all you can do is be guilty and ashamed and afraid of your past.

When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.

I always asked for forgiveness for my sins right away but I never accepted it until I felt right that I had suffered enough to pay for it. God revealed to me what I was doing how much unnecessary pain I was causing myself. He even showed me that what I was doing was an insult to Jesus that in essence I was saying Lord the sacrifice of Your life and blood was good but not good enough. I must add my work of feeling guilty before I can be forgiven.

Justified means just as if you've never sinned.

Our past may explain why we're suffering, but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.

Pray for your enemies, and bless those who mistreat you" (see Matt. 5:44).

Don't receive condemnation when you have setbacks or bad days. Just get back up, dust yourself off, and start again.

The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.

Staying angry at someone who has hurt you is like taking poison hoping that your enemy will die.

You may have heard the saying, "Refusing to forgive is like drinking poison and hoping it kills the other person.

If someone hurts you, cry a river, then build a bridge and get over it. Unknown

Do not [earnestly] remember the former things; neither consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18,19

I urge you to stop remembering what God has forgotten.