Quotes About Forgiveness

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

To convince the world of the truth of Christianity, it must first be convinced of sin. It is only sin that renders Christ intelligible." Andrew Murray, The Spirit of Christ

I've done a prideful thing, a thing more sinful than she ever done to me. I took the bottom out of her life.

At the center of religion is love. I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

Es el recuerdo, no el olvido, el verdadero invento del demonio

God does not want a church filled with white-robed saints. He does not want a church filled with theological authorities or cultured clergyman. He wants a church filled with ordinary men and women who exemplify the extraordinary integrity, temperament, wholeness, compassion, individuality, boldness, righteousness, earnestness, love, forgiveness, selflessness, and faithfulness of Jesus Christ!

We do not need more frightening punishments and more withering scoldings. We need the all-sufficiency of Jesus applied in rich measure to our deepest points of personal need.

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

Liebet eure Feinde, tut denen Gutes, die euch hassen‹, hat er gesagt. Und: ›Segnet die, die euch verfluchen,

There are actually real, flesh-and-blood people who have been harmed by powerful evildoers in the church. Who will show mercy to them? Who will show them the compassion they so desperately need? Will it be the Christians who are so busy "not judging" the ones who have committed egregious harm?

Even if God forgives you, you do not forgive yourself. You live in your sorrow like a room of mirrors that reflects on and on to eternity.

Love is kind, right? It's not about calling someone out on every little thing you feel.

A man without a memory is only capable of doing evil, nothing else but evil.

Make a careful list of all things done to you that you abhorred. Don't do them to others, ever.

How carefully would I atone, if I might, for the time I have lost!

I'm not ready to die yet. I have, like, 40 years left that I have to make up for all of the trouble I caused in my first 50 years.

In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.

All the Arsenal fans boo me, and when I look back, I understand where everything went wrong, but there are certain things in life you cannot come back to anymore.

I don't think everyone should get a second chance.

I'm Christian. I've made mistakes. I believe fervently in second chances.

The business of second chances is everybody's business.

I believe in second chances in life.