Quotes About Forgiveness

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.

I've made some very silly mistakes.

To bicker over what could have been is silly.

Girls groups tend to break up more because sometimes it's hard for women to get along. And everybody is like, 'They're breaking up over silly stuff.' That's not the silly thing to me - to break up. The silly part is that you couldn't get back together. It's about working out, because everyone has their differences.

I have grown up a lot over the years and now I can laugh about the silly mistakes I made on TV.

The difference between explaining behavior and excusing it is captured in the saying To understand is not to forgive.

The rancor I once bore recedes, supplanted by admiration and a sense even of loss at the mates we might have been and the times we might have shared.

What could be more natural for this man than to draw to his bosom all with whom he shared that time, even his foes? Perhaps his foes more than any.

How else account this usage, that enemies of yore may, by the passage of years alone, become friends?

I don't know what your story is, son, and I don't wanna know. I can see you're working something out in your life. I can see you're trying your best. I can cut you slack. I'm trying to. But there's one thing you have to understand.

Memoirs of the North Africa campaign attest that, fierce and brutal as much of the fighting was, relations between individual enemies retained a quality of forbearance that seems, today, almost impossible to imagine. This

In Heaven you forget everything. In Hell they make you remember.

You're unsure what you think of him, a fact you pride yourself on. It defines you, this willingness to hear all sides, love everyone. You've stopped believing in evil. Is that a sin? You know what your mother would say, but justice needs to be fair-handed, the dead deserve your compassion. It's your job to understand, to forgive, not simply your custom.

When we forgive someone, it doesn't justify what they've done. It releases them into God's hands so He can deal with them.

But God considers the sins of unforgiveness, anger, hatred, self-pity, lovelessness, and revenge to be just as bad as any others.

Repentance means to change your mind. To turn and walk the other way. Repentance means being so deeply sorry for what you have done that you will do whatever it takes to keep it from happening again.

Lord, help me to have Your love and forgiveness in my heart. Enable me to live in peace, tranquility, simplicity, and good health. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

We all have human feelings, emotions, and thoughts. If we don't spend time with the Lord, we become dominated by them. But when we spend time with God, our unforgiveness, doubt, lust, hate, anxiety, and sadness becomes forgiveness, faith, purity, love, peace, and joy. When we delight ourselves in the Lord, He gives us the desires of our heart. When we commit our ways to the Lord and trust in Him, He brings our desires to pass as we pray about them (Psalm 37:4-5).

Whether it's something that happened as long ago as your early childhood or as recently as yesterday, the past can keep you from moving into all God has for you. That's why He wants to set you free from it.

But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. MATTHEW 6:15

The enemy wants us unable to forget the terrible things that occurred in the past and instead remember them as though they happened yesterday. God has healing for upsetting memories.

Por cualquiera que sea la razón, el peso de la culpa se cierne sobre nosotros aplastándonos con fuerza demoledora, y a menos que sea eliminado, nos separa de la plenitud de la vida.

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

In every broken marriage, there is at least one person whose heart is hard against God.