Quotes About Forgiveness

You cannot have a clean conscience without satisfying justice, and this Christ did when He died on the cross.

Repentance is the key to reconciliation, and the key to repentance is an admission of wrong.

God meets you where you are, not where you ought to be. When you manifest a heart to seek Him, your sin and error do not stand in His way.

Repentance is essential, but never presume to come to God with a broken heart of repentance without acknowledging your dependence upon Jesus Christ's death as the sole basis of God's mercy. It is only in His name and for His sake that God promises to forgive you.

If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug — which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.

If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.

Peace requires the capacity to forgive. Peace requires a readiness to share generously. Peace requires the violation of strict class stratification in society. Peace requires attentiveness to the vulnerable and the unproductive. Peace requires humility in the face of exaltation, being last among those who insist on being first and denying self in the interest of the neighbor. These are all practices that mark his presence in his society.

The judge remembers to be a parent: a father in wistfulness, a mother in yearning, a God of grief flowing with tears beside the deathbed. The angry God remembers to be a God who cares about the beloved partner. God has noticed. God has noticed the mocking and the dying, the denial and the irrepressible pain. To

Needless to say, the Bible knows of no such grotesque creature as one who is saved but unrepentant.

Gredel tried not to bristle at Caro's attitude. Hitting was what boyfriends did. It was normal. The point was whether they felt sorry afterward.

Perhaps that was the day when the bombed synagogue opened again. Or the one when I went to a cobbler who was repairing shoes with the leather from stolen Torah rolls. "I didn't know it was sacred leather," he said. We collected all the pieces together, and he refused the money that I tried to give him for a few ladies' shoes with Hebrew letters written in ancient ink on the soles.

This escapade taught me a lesson," Nimitz later recalled, "to look with lenient and tolerant eye on first offenders when in later years they appeared before me as a Commanding Officer holding Mast."8

Amar es buscar el bien del otro y disfrutarlo, que su dolor nos duela y su alegría nos alegre, y con el amor propio ocurre algo similar: si no te perdonas, si te fastidia estar contigo mismo, si no te soportas y te menosprecias, ¡pues no te amas!

La cuerda cortada puede volver a anudarse, vuelve a aguantar, pero está cortada. Quizá volvamos a tropezar, pero allí donde me abandonaste no volverás a encontrarme. BERTOLT BRECHT

El perdón no es una obligación, es una elección libre que maneja sus propios tiempos.

Cuando te sorprendas tratándote mal, activa la consideración, las buenas maneras, la cortesía, la amabilidad, y ofrécete disculpas. Sí, disculpas, como si no fueras tú mismo. El cuerpo escucha, la mente asimila.

On love, on grief, on every human thing, Time sprinkles Lethe's water with his wing.

Whoever has offended another with insults or harmful words or even a serious accusation must remember to right the wrong he has done at the earliest opportunity.

Whoever has offended another with insults or harmful words or even a serious accusation must remember to right the wrong he has done at the earliest opportunity. The injured must remember to forgive without further bickering.

Harboring enmity and seeking revenge only perpetuates the power of oppressors to lord it over their victims long after the deed was done. Thus, at the most fundamental level, forgiveness spells liberation for the victim

As we begin to acknowledge our own inner shadow, we become more tolerant of the shadow in others.

In the final analysis, then, love of enemies is trusting God for the miracle of divine forgiveness. If God can forgive, redeem, and transform me, I must also believe that God can work such wonders with anyone. Love of enemies is seeing one's oppressors through the prism of the Reign of God--not only as they now are but also as they can become: transformed by the power of God.

Loving confrontation can free both the oppressed from docility and the oppressor from sin.

Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks