Quotes About Forgiveness

I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.

I had been ready to reproach her for the indignities she had caused me to suffer in the past, but suddenly I was moved by this figure of an old woman I no longer recognized, and all I could do was stare vacantly down at her.

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He is not holding any of His blessings back from you because of something you have done wrong.

It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

Always seek to allow others the space to be imperfect.

We've all been there, that deserted island called regret.

Was Eve's sin so much greater and more unforgivable than Adam's that the entire female gender must forever be treated with suspicion and controlling measures?

But I was beginning to see how she must have thought she was doing something good for us, even though she was wrong.

I must warn you," he says. Whatever persecutions the Christians have experienced, and whether it has been Jews or pagans or heretics who have mistreated them, Christians must not avenge themselves. Cyprian places himself among them: "We should not hasten to revenge their pain with an angry speed.

Tertullian recounts the narrative of Jesus, whose labors (unlike Hercules's) did not include killing, capturing, and stealing43 but who instead kept a low profile, who bore reproaches, who would not hear of forcing people, who ate at anyone's table, who declined to call for massive angelic intervention, who rejected the avenging sword, who healed the servant of his enemy, and thereby "cursed for all time the works of the sword.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

We glory in our wonderful gospel of love and mercy for the unsaved, but we usually act as if we have no gospel for the saint who has been tripped up by the devil!

He died for the ungodly, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. There wasn't one lovely or good thing in any of us that could draw out love from the heart of a holy Savior—there was everything to repel. Yet the infinite God, the altogether lovely One, whose ideal of love surely is far beyond anything we could ever imagine, whose capacity for love is beyond our understanding altogether, He loved us and gave Himself for us.

Simply put, reconciliation is the idea that things and people that are broken can be put back together.

For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. —MATTHEW 6:14–15

Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. —1 PETER 3:9

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. —ROMANS 12:14