Quotes About Forgiveness

sometimes you just have to bury the dead and move on.

Chris Bohjalian

I want that person you knew to return. But the truth is, this may be the best we achieve. Today, having her here and comfortable and not agitated…that may be as good as we get. Are you okay with that?

the closest we ever get to loving others like God loved us is when we give somebody a second chance to hurt us. [Waite Evers, as quoted by Clay Bledsoe]

I took her hands in both of mine. "Darlin', what happened in those woods does not define the rest of your life. People might look at you and say, 'There's that woman that was taken to the cabin in Kentucky.' But God doesn't look at you that way. He says, 'There's my daughter. There's my spotless bride that my Son died for.' What happened out there does not have to follow you.

The past is like grace. It's not enough to know about it. We all know what happened back there. Grace allows you to see yourself in light of the past, not in the shadow of it. You see the truth about yourself, your need. On

You can live under the weight of your past or the weight of forgiveness. If you choose the former, you'll constantly be working off the guilt like someone who overeats at the holidays.

Lord, I don't know if Tony is in trouble or if he's upset about his job or if he's just working out at the gym. But I pray that You would draw him closer. Help him see there's no sin so great that You aren't ready to forgive. I pray You would give him hope. I pray You would allow him to see how much You love him and want him to come back to You. And give me the ability to love him well, through whatever we face.

One of the Bible studies her group had gone through contained a whole section on forgiveness and how important it was. It asked, if we truly possess forgiveness from God, can we give that forgiveness to others? And if you're not ready to forgive another person, can you really say you're ready to be forgiven by God?

The Bible says, 'There is no one righteous, not even one.' So really, none of us deserves grace. But we all still want God's forgiveness.

She [Pidge Bledsoe] supposed there was something gentle in every man, even the mean ones.

It was one thing to believe God could forgive a sinner. It was another thing to believe that the sinner could live forgiven.

he thanked God for the chance to change, the chance to be part of his family, the chance to love and be loved and make mistakes.

The reason he kept going was that God got hold of his heart. And he did the same for me. I'm so ashamed of what happened back there. How we let our passions run. We hurt a lot of people. And we've lived with that. But

A man who commits adultery can never undo his sin. But there was forgiveness from God and, he hoped

God, I want a new job and I don't want to go to jail," Tony prayed. "But I know there are consequences to my actions. I know what I did hurt people. I've hurt my family. I hurt my employer. And I thank You for forgiving me and grabbing hold of my heart and not letting me go any further toward things that would have destroyed me. "Right

We all make mistakes. That's why my pencil has an eraser.

The sweats teach you that you can't carry grudges, you can't carry hatred in your heart. It'll make you sick, so you have to learn to forgive

I have hurt my community. I have to look myself in the mirror and know that, and I have to own that in order to grow past that.

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

When a striker misses a chance, people say he should have scored, but five minutes later, they don't talk about it anymore.

'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

I am a firm believer that you can make a mistake but that shouldn't define you. Everybody deserves a second chance.

We can afford almost any mistake once.