Quotes About Forgiveness

With love, we rise; with hate, we sink! Always remember this golden law!

Love does not judge. Love promotes personal growth.

When we are unable to love and appreciate ourselves and our efforts, we run away from our mistakes and failures, rather than learning from them.

We'd hoped for love of a different kind, love that knew and forgave our human frailty but did not miniaturize our grander ideas of ourselves.

It's more instinctive to want revenge, but we are also capable of immense amounts of forgiveness and love and a compassion that extends even to those who have brutalized us.

Act only in Love. Make every moment of your life an outpouring of love.

Again, mercy is literally love in action.

While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.

That person, I can't remember who it was right now, who said the pen was mightier that the sword-I thnk they were wrong. I think the eraser is actually the most powerful tool. I wish there was an eraser that could erase the things a person did. And erase other people. Writing things down doesn't erase anything. What's done is done, and that really sucks.

A girl shouldn't hold a baked stuffed onion against a boy forever.

If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.

They are nothing but a broken bones crawling in the shadow of the past.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

A culture of forgiveness makes any community irresistible.

It must grieve the Holy Spirit when a group or a family or a church communicates "not welcome" to those who desperately long for a place at the table.

The adventure of collaborating with God involves bestowing the greatest gift a person can receive — the gift of amazing grace — on undeserving (and often unsuspecting) people like you and me.

forgiveness in God's time is the only door to healing.

Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying, Snow said. It can make up for evil done to you, but can destroy the remaining good in your life.

The fact that I let you back into my bed is the proof that I've hit rock bottom.

As I sat in the hotel room, I realized that in fact I had left my heavenly Father again. By allowing myself to become anxious, I had run off from His comforting Presence. When would I learn that I cannot worry and trust God at the same time! I relaxed in my chair and felt at peace again. "Oh, thank You, Father," I said weeping in relief. "Please forgive me for stepping away from You. You are here, You are in that hall. I'll be all right.

Believing prayer will save the sick man; the Lord will restore him and any sins that he has committed will be forgiven....Tremendous power is made available through a good man's earnest prayer...

It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

immo et præstat gratia Dei per Christum.

My father had told me when I was young that courage was not strength in the absence of fear but strength in the presence of fear, and I asked God for the courage to withstand whatever lay ahead. I felt His forgiveness wash over me, lessening my remorse.