Quotes About Forgiveness

people who have been saved by grace grow to love giving grace to others.

God can and will wipe all that shame and sadness away if you will only repent.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

When we see the faults of others, we are to forgive and forbear in humility.

If we had not experienced our deep sinfulness and Jesus' deep forgiveness through the cross, we will not love others well in the midst of their struggles. If we do not see the beauty and glory of God in our own redemption, we will not be able to offer a compelling redemptive vision for those who are hopeless and who doubt God's love for them.

Because in prayer I expand my sense of how I have offended God. And I thereby lower my sense of how much others have offended me. Prayer is changing me.

Does God love us even when our hearts are far from Him? The answer: Yes, He does!

Jesus is the most famous victim of capital punishment.

The fourth step of the examen is asking for forgiveness from God for anything sinful that you've done during the day.

Compassion, perseverance, and forgiveness are all gifts.

True prayer wants others to flourish. If any still have a hard time praying for church leaders, they might use a prayer that I find helpful when I am struggling with another person. My prayer is to see that person as God sees him or her.

Be grateful for your sins. They are carriers of grace.

Beware of condemning any man's action. Consider your neighbor's intention, which is often honest and innocent, even though his act seems bad in outward appearance. —St. Ignatius Loyola

People are more than the worst thing they've ever done in their lives.

I was so sorry, deep in my heart I was sorry, but all your "sorrys" are gone when a person dies. She was gone. Gone. That's why you have to say all your "sorrys" and "I love yous" while a person is living, because tomorrow isn't promised.

I know that I'll move on, I tell myself I'll find me something better I'll let go and just forget her She was no good for me Deep down I know that's the way it has to be so How come I still can't open this letter I can't forget her...

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.

For imagine having somebody beside you day and night loving you and forgiving you and petting you forever and ever, that must be a better description of hell than being put into a boiling lake or cauldron of ice that burnt your black.

To Jesus it is inconceivable that someone would dare ask God for full and free forgiveness while remaining as an unforgiving person towards others. The forgiven forgive and the forgivers are forgiven.

Beware of knowing your virtues; you may lose them. Beware of knowing your vices; you may forgive them.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." — Marianne Williamson

Time did indeed heal all wounds, but it left a nasty, unforgiving scar

Bitter thoughts swept through him. That face had been called many names over the centuries, worn many identities. But after two millennia he had returned to the one his mother had given him. Judas Iscariot.

Leopold did not have to touch it to know to whom it belonged. It was as familiar as his own palm. It was his rosary, lost when he fell from the train. He closed his eyes. Look how far I have fallen, my Lord . . . He remembered Bernard so bowed by sorrow, so stricken by grief. Over me . . . a traitor.