Quotes About Forgiveness

It was a lesson I had taken most of my life to learn. Sometimes you have to let things go.

There is no greater expression of love than the cross.

There is only one way to get rid of your enemies, and that is turn them into your friends, and the only way possible to turn them into friends is to love them.

Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.

Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.

When you hold a grudge, you want someone else's sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet.

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.

The truth is, we in our own resources cannot forgive. However, since Christ is our life and lives in us, we realize that forgiving is what we as holy, righteous, and loving people do. It is our very nature to do so.

In Christ, we are a new creation and are defined by His Life, not our bad behavior!

It's the tension we feel between the desire to erase and forget and the need to always remember, and that only happens after you know, never before.

The theme—the power of every human being to reconcile with his past—was one that resonated with me in a big way.

In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated, friends and foes and kin, with no distinction among them. We have to mourn every one of them, because our memories have made them as much a part of us as our bones or our skin. If we don't, we've no right to remember anything at all.

There's nothing like a good cheating song to make me want to run home to be with my wife.

There are four things our ancestors need from us: acknowledgment, validation, understanding, and forgiveness.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the past, the present, and the future.

No soul can withstand the sun's bones of light and reason dims when darkness falls - so we shape barrows in the night for you and your kin." "Forgive my interruption, then," said I. "The dead never interrupt," said the mason, "they but arrive.

Confidence comes from cutting yourself some slack.

I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack.

Be the best you can be, but acknowledge that you will make mistakes, and then know which errors to let go of. There will be typos in e-mails, meetings you are late for, daily to-do lists that don't get completed. Cut yourself some slack and, more important, reward yourself along the way.

The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.