Quotes About Forgiveness

Because what is love if not an exercise in faith. Because what is love if not perseverance. Because what is love if not forgiveness.

Here's the deal, y'all. God. Already. Knows. His people are a hot, sinful mess, so when we simply acknowledge that and repent, He's waiting with open arms. We don't have to justify ourselves because Jesus already did that on the cross. So the risk of repentance doesn't lead to punishment—it leads to the unilateral forgiveness and unconditional affection of our Creator Redeemer. Vegas only wished it had a payout that humongous.

God's arms are always extended; we are the ones who turn away.1 —Philip Yancey

It serves no purpose to relive the worst moments of your life.

I'm really sorry I can't pay you back," I said. He shook his head. "My father's going to take everything you own and then break your life. It's the least I can bloody do.

I'm sorry you're angry is NOT an apology.

I don't know is she loves me anymore, or if she hates me, or if she just don't care one way or the other, she ain't showing a thing to me since. Sooth, friendly, nothing. It's all I deserve after what I did to her.

She's only human. Don't judge her. Just love her.

That's what love is. Forgiveness. Judgment belongs to God Almighty. Not you.

Then you forgive her. That's what love is. Forgiveness. Judgment belongs to God Almighty. Not you.

It's not her fault she got hit.

Who can name a death that was not tragic?" the speaker asks. "Is there a way for us to find meaning in the losses we've suffered? Who can say that one soul has a heavier grievance than another? We were all victims. We need to forgive each other." Remember? Yes. Forgive? No.

A monument will never change how she feels. It's unfair that victims should have to forgive those who raped, tortured, and killed, or burned villages to the ground. On an Island of World Peace, shouldn't those who inflicted terrible harm on others be forced to confess and atone, and not make widows and mothers pay for stone monuments?

It was easier for me to begin picking at Snow Flower's faults than to feel the emotions raging inside of me.

Don't blame yourself for things that maybe happened," she said.

The realization that truth, forgiveness, and goodness are more important than revenge, condemnation, and cruelty gives me courage and certainty.

I had to hold on to my anger and my bitterness as a way of honoring those I'd lost.

A friend without faults will never be found

They did this to me. They did that to me.' A woman who thinks that way will never overcome her anger. You are not being punished for your anger. You're being punished by your anger.

I didn't see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone's life.

Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks.

Maybe that alone was the foundation of a good marriage, an endless willingness to forgive and to love in spite of ourselves, an ability to ride the highs and endure the lows, the decision to always go home. She

What does it mean to forgive someone? It only means that you release the anger, the hatred. It doesn't mean that you're saying it's all right now, or that you've forgotten the wrong. It just means that you've drained the boil. When you touch it, it doesn't hurt as much. That's all.

It was so much simpler to see other people's wrongs and make them pay. It was so much harder to have compassion, to see yourself in others and find forgiveness.