Quotes About Forgiveness

Time is like that. Especially when you're young. It can fix a lot of things, and what it doesn't fix, you forget, or at least push back and only bring out at certain times, which is what I did, now and then, late at night, just before sleep claimed me.

I don't know it's such a good idea to dig up the past like an old grave. What's in it might stink.

And now,"she said, raising her hand for a cab, "your wish has been granted. You may go home and forget I ever existed."A taxi swung up to the curb. "Whatever happens next is not on your conscience." "Wait,"I said. "Gobi . . ." She leaned forward, kissing me briefly on the mouth. "Au revoir, Perry." "Wait,"I said. But she didn't. She climbed into the taxi. She didn't look back.

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

I love you." "I'm sorry." "Please forgive me." "Thank you.

But you're not. So by saying, "I love you, I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you," you are cleaning the programs in you that are preventing you being at the pure state: love. Again, the Divine

Divine creator, father, mother, son as one . . . If I, my family, relatives, and ancestors have offended you, your family, relatives, and ancestors in thoughts, words, deeds, and actions from the beginning of our creation to the present, we ask your forgiveness. . . . Let this cleanse, purify, release, cut all the negative memories, blocks, energies, and vibrations and transmute these unwanted energies to pure light. . . . And it is done.

There is no judgment upon you; there is no memory of the past; there is only the understanding of this moment.

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Love overlooks a person's faults. That's not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.

You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.

When we don't forgive, we're not hurting the other person. We're not hurting the company that did us wrong. We're not hurting God. We're only hurting ourselves.

We've got to give people room to have a bad day.

Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.

If you want to build lifelong, loyal friendships, if you want to build trust, learn to protect your family members and friends even when they make mistakes.

Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.

Surely, we all can look back and see things in our lives that we wish we would have done differently. But the Bible says, "Make the most of each day."4 Yesterday is gone; tomorrow may not come. You must live for today. Start right where you are. You can't do anything about what's gone, but you can do a great deal about what remains.

You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you've also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.

I love the fact that Jesus broke the rules to reach people. He went against protocol, against what was accepted, to lift the fallen, to heal the hurting, to restore the broken.

If you're going to be an eagle, if you're going to soar, you can't go back to the dead things in your life that will poison you. Too many people are feeding off what didn't work out, reliving the disappointments, the failures, the bad breaks.

You can't stop the offense from coming, but you can keep it from getting down in you. How much time are you spending offended, bitter, holding on to a grudge? How much more could you accomplish if you would start letting things go?

As long as you're living in regret, focused on the negative things of the past, you won't move ahead to the bright future God has in store. You need to let go of what didn't work out. Let go of your hurts and pains. Let go of your mistakes and failures. You can't do anything about the past, but you can do something about right now.

The fact is, we grow in difficult times. That's when character is developed. ... Growth comes when you have to overlook an insult, forgive a wrong, and do the right thing even when the wrong thing is happening.