Quotes About Forgiveness

Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners.

Time can heal and time can help forgive and forget because in time the memories fade. The time will go so slow so fast and love will stay if it's right.

Never block that person who is always available for you all the time. Never block him because you may not know what he has done for you. It is the biggest mistake you do in your life

If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people's thinking.

You can't make up for lost time. You can only do better in the future.

To accept one's past -- one's history -- is not the same thing as drowning in it

Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.

Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.

We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people and pray for our enemies.

We're all going to have to learn to live together and develop a greater tolerance and get rid off whatever our fathers gave us in the way of hatred between nations.

We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us.

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.

Rejoicing and repentance must go together. Repentance without rejoicing will lead to despair. Rejoicing without repentance is shallow and will only provide passing inspiration instead of deep change.

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

If you look at the gospel, it just doesn't break things apart. The gospel brings things together. One of the great demonstration of the gospel's power is reconciliation.

The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.