Quotes About Forgiveness

Redemption and judgment are inseparable; the one can come only through the other.

But grace is always hard for rebels to understand; their view of God is too small.

The cross places us under a far greater obligation to love than the exodus ever could.

you needn't be so busy fighting and punishing yourself.

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

One time you told me that the opposite of love isn't hate. And I didn't understand that, but I think I do know. Because if you hate someone, you most still care, right? You have to care a little bit; otherwise you would just ignore them and forget they even live. Or lived.

Maybe Rachel was right all along. Maybe the past is past, history is history, and you just push it aside and look for the future.

You don't break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don't.

It just means that if someone hates you, they still have feelings for you. If they really didn't care about you, they'd just forget about you. They wouldn't even waste the time hating you.

He easily gathered her in his arms; Gramma was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy - and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.

He had to do it in secret. He didn't want people to think he was buying forgiveness or understanding. Those two things should not be for sale, at any price.

Disappointment is part of parenthood, Jasper. The trick is learnin' to love your kids even when they disappoint you.

She strokes my cheek. "Don't hate yourself, sweetheart. It gets you nothing. It gets you nowhere.

She chuckles. "You're apologizing again! All is right with the world.

No one else needs to feel bad about what happened. Only one person.

No one else needs to feel bad about what happened. Only one person. I wish there were a way to assuage him, a way to tell him, "It's all right. You don't have to step around the rusty nails and broken glass of my past. Don't beat yourself up." But the only way to do that would be to acknowledge it in the first place, to say it happened, and I can't do that. When I try to talk about it, everything goes haywire.

You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor but bear no sin because of him. You

As far as I am concerned, the notion that God requires a blood sacrifice to forgive the sins of humanity is easily the saddest, most hurtful, and most discouraging doctrine ever invented.

KAMU: Kiss and make up

Todas estas universas e infinitas gentes a toto genero crió Dios los más simples, sin maldades ni dobleces, obedientísimas, fidelísimas a sus señores naturales e a los cristianos a quien sirven; más humildes, más pacientes, más pacíficas e quietas, sin rencillas ni bollicios, no rijosos, no querulosos, sin rancores, sin odios, sin desear venganzas, que hay en el mundo. Son

aquele que quer responder às injúrias com o ódio vive na tristeza ou na mágoa, aquele que quer vencer o ódio com o amor combate alegremente e sem temor. Triunfa tanto sobre um grande número de inimigos quanto sobre um único, prescindindo de todo socorro da fortuna. Aqueles a quem ele consegue vencer ficam alegres por terem sido derrotados; e, derrotados, eles não são menos fortes; ao contrário, são mais fortes.

that he that is strong hates no man, is angry with no man, envies no man, is indignant with no man, despises no man, and least of all things is proud.