Quotes About Forgiveness

You are simply naturally inclined to make mistakes just as everyone else is, whether male or female, black or white, young or old. These mistakes are your school of learning, therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.

Other people may well not find it relevant that you have forgiven yourself, but you need to know that it is not for them anyway. Everything at the moment is wholly about you.

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.

All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.

Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, "Today I am going to be rich," does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best.

Do not be deceived that you are weak because you have forgiven; instead be rest assured that you are now showing great strength - after all, forgiving is one of the most difficult things to do.

Remember, forgiveness is not a millstone but a milestone!

All these do-gooders make it sound like you just have to repent and off you go to heaven, but what about all the atrocities the Catholic religion did to us? Who pays for that! They just took over our lives!!

If you have a fault it is you do not forgive easy!

Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.

The same zeal and guts with which you were persistent not to forgive is the same zeal and enthusiasm with which you should be able to open up a new relationship with your partner, loved one or friend, one that is founded on commitment and dedication.

When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.

When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.

Resentment's appetite is never fulfilled.

You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!

Anger is a destroying force. What all the world needs is its opposite-- an uplifting power. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, As A Farm Woman Thinks (3) (November 1,1921).

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

There is a point you reach, I mean, when you are just something bad that happened to someone else.

It is so freeing to realize that we don't have anything to prove or to protect. We don't have to fix anything. God doesn't need any help. He did fine before we came along and will do fine long after we're gone. The great thing about being a Christian is that you can forgive, love, and encourage 'em all, and then let God sort it out.

The reason we feel guilty before the God of the universe is because we are guilty and because God is really God. So, if you feel guilty, you've made a very good start. At least you are beginning at the right place. Properly understood, that is the bridge you cross that will get you to God in prayer. But

It is tough to be forgiven because when one has been forgiven, it is hard to look down one's arrogant nose at anybody else. I'm

In order to understand great grace, you have to understand your great need. In order to understand God's lack of anger, you have to understand how much you deserve the anger of a holy God. In order to understand great mercy, you have to know that you need it. As

By now a new idea had been identified by both American and Pakistani negotiators, one that might save face. The United States could pay "blood money" to the families of Davis's two victims and the families could choose to forgive him.