Quotes About Forgiveness

Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you.

You cannot do more than you can, so be gentle with yourself and quick to forgive your mistakes and to move on.

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves to release us from the shackles of our past. The pain of those who wounded us may linger but it needn't overshadow our happiness.

He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.

We may never be able to forget what has happened. We may harbor the sadness from it in our hearts forever. The former of these is unavoidable.

Height to height and light to light, like butterflies and minor gods or aerial photographers we make this plot, pretend to view a former fate where Hardy's rustics still forgive what seems to them but nature's lot.

I command any seed of the devil that has already entered into my life as a result of my unforgiveness to be cast out and to die. Any door that unforgiveness has opened in my life to the devil and his demons, I slam you shut

Revenge, at first though sweet,Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I shall temper soJustice with mercy.

Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev'd.

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...

And Christ ain't a-going to be too hardOn a man that died for men.

It wasn't you. You didn't choose this. No one would ever choose this. It's not your fault.

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

The unchangeableness of the Lord's love, and the riches of his mercy, are likewise more illustrated by the multiplied pardons He bestows upon his people — than if they needed no forgiveness at all.

Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it!

think of self-acceptance in terms of "permission." So, for example, "accepting the need to rest" might become "giving myself permission to rest." In whatever way you look at it, self-acceptance or permission means you honestly acknowledge reality. It also means putting down the stick that we've been using to beat ourselves. In this way, the pain lessens and our capacity to act is enhanced.

TO COME HOME TO YOURSELF May all that is unforgiven in you Be released. May your fears yield Their deepest tranquillities. May all that is unlived in you Blossom into a future Graced with love.

Bitterness is like drinking rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.

Although mankind abdicated authority to the enemy, God gave mankind a second chance—He always does, because He is full of love, mercy, and forgiveness. God has always believed in us to fulfill His created purpose. His love bears for us whatever we cannot bear. His love believes in us when we have lost ability to believe in ourselves. His love hopes for us when we have lost hope. His love endures everything we do (1 Corinthians 13:7.)

Conflict in itself is not sin. But sin may enter into the situation, depending on how we approach conflict, how we deal with it, and especially how we treat each other. Sin is a feature of the quality of our relationships.

Reconciliation is not to quickly forgive and forget, as if it never happened or we somehow are gifted with a form of amnesia. Reconciliation requires that we remember and change, but with honesty about our experience and curiosity about the humanness of the other whom we fear.

Reconciliation is getting to the heart of the gospel and getting on with the gospel.