Quotes About Forgiveness

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.

forgive yourself and you'll get better quicker. We all make mistakes.

Your past can only hurt you if you allow it into your present and your future.

So you made some bad choices. Some of God's best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God's best picks. He specializes in short-tempered, reckless, flawed people to accomplish his plans.

But here's an even better truth: God knows you can't make it right. None of it. But He can. The day I took a good look at my sins—my real sins—was the day I discovered 1 John 1:9. 'But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.

Forgiveness is the currency of heaven.

if I walk around with anger in my heart, it just darkens my own soul. Forgiveness is hard, but really, it costs me nothing because it doesn't come from me.

Maybe that was the key-just because she'd made a mistake with her life didn't mean that God did, and it hopefully didn't change the way God saw her.

God will show up even when we've made a mess of things. Even when it's out fault - He will show up because that's Who He is.

Forgiveness has no limit. There's an endless supply.

Grace isn't just for other people. Maybe you didn't get that memo.

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving… It's for yourself. It's hat you do to be set free.

Susan May Warren

We are accountable because we are sinful. The unfortunate truth is that Adam chose to sin, and so do we. But the good news is that God gives us a way out, through Christ. Accountability and forgiveness in one shot. All we have to do is accept it. It's pretty easy.

She's a smokejumper who's afraid of fire. He's the partner who can't forgive himself for loving her. Now they must face the flames together if they hope to survive the Summer of Fire.

Grace meant God knew her past and still offered her a beautiful future. An unbreakable happy ending.

I know grace is difficult to accept... it's in our nature to want to bargain for our redemption... but you can do nothing but receive it.

The Ones who love you always come back

God knows how tough it is to forgive, especially when someone has done you wrong. But He does expect you to do it. And He expects you to be patient and trust Him to work in others' lives. Psalm 37. It's one of my favorites, especially when I know God wants me to do something impossible, like forgive.

She knew right then...she too knew real love. that kid of love that forgave again and kept showing up, loving her when she didn't have the courage to love back. Love pursued. Love forgave. Love believed. Love sacrificed.~ Jess (pg 287)

When you forgive someone, it gives you room in your heart to love them.

Dodge, be honest. It's not close to over. You've been nursing this wound for nearly ten years, working it off over there in Afghanistan, trying to forget the girl you've loved since you were ten. There's no way this is over. There is so much bitterness sitting in your heart you can't even see it. But maybe that's why God brought you back - for her. And to set you free from all that darkness.

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving, Echo. It's for yourself. It's what you do to be set free.

love doesn't come from us - it's born in us, a birthright from God. We can't manufacture it, we can only release what He's given us. That nudge to forgive? I told you– I think that's love trying to break free.