Quotes About Forgiveness

Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love. —Ephesians 4:2

Can you make allowances for someone's faults because of your love? — Francine Duckworth

Sixth, agree to affirm your love for each other. After the anger is resolved, tell each other of your love.

When I have been wronged by my spouse and she has painfully confessed it and requested forgiveness, I have the option of justice or forgiveness. If I choose justice and seek to pay her back or make her pay for her wrongdoing, I am making myself the judge and she the felon. Intimacy becomes impossible. If, however, I choose to forgive, intimacy can be restored. Forgiveness is the way of love.

If I choose justice and seek to pay my spouse back or make her pay for her wrongdoing, I am making myself the judge and her the felon. Intimacy becomes impossible. If, however, I choose to forgive, intimacy can be restored. Forgiveness is the way of love.

Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone. —Romans 12:18

You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. —Genesis 50:20

The patience of love never gives up. — Linda Cox —

God wants us to extend the hand of mercy to others, just as He has extended it to us. — Andrea Jennings

Sometimes love means counting to ten more than once. — Jim Zabloski

No one can pray honestly without real love and forgiveness in his heart. — Kenneth Santoro —

But to you who are willing to listen, I say, love your enemies! Do good to those who hate you. —Luke 6:27

Loving unconditionally always leads to improved relationships.

Come now, let's settle this," says the Lord. "Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool." —Isaiah 1:18

We cannot erase the past. We can only confess it and agree that it was wrong. We can ask for forgiveness and try to act differently in the future

means never having to say you're sorry

Who do you suppose loved him more after that?" Simon answered, "I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt." —Luke 7:42–43

I love others, I apologize when I've committed a faux pas or sin. Because I love others, I admit it when I've been wrong and ask for forgiveness.

False accusations against us should be reminders of God's love for us. — Steven Brown

Forgiveness presupposes that a wrong has been commmitted. Irritations do not call for forgiveness, rather they call for negotiations

If, however, I choose to forgive, intimacy can be restored. Forgiveness is the way of love.

So the Lord was sorry he had ever made them. . . . It broke his heart. —Genesis 6:6

When your kids, or others, break your heart, go to God—He knows how you feel! — Janet Graham —

Showing true love through forgiveness is liberating and fulfilling. — Bobby Lewis —