Quotes About Forgiveness

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think nowHistory has many cunning passages, contrived corridorsAnd issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,Guides us by vanities.

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

Because you have messed up, many of you believe your calling has been annulled. The devil is a liar, for "the gifts and calling of God are without repentance" (Rom. 11:29). That is, they are irrevocable—He's not taking them back.

If you have been betrayed or wounded by someone you brought too close, please forgive them. They really were a blessing. You will only be better when you cease to be bitter!

Because we have offered no provision for sons and daughters who fall, many of our Adams and our Eves are hiding in the bushes.

Have you ever been guilty of having a condescending attitude about another person's weakness? How can we dare to think we can access the soul-cleansing blood that delivers us from the cesspool of our secret sins, and then look down on another member of Christ's Body in disdain?

A man who forgets his past and allows the flame of the things he loves to be extinguished has no future.

Avoid strife for today by forgetting the strife of yesterday, We all have skeletons in the closet -- use your skeleton key to keep them there.

The powers of the Atonement do not lie dormant until one sins and then suddenly spring forth to satisfy the needs of the repentant person. Rather, like the forces of gravity, they are everywhere present, exerting their unseen but powerful influence.

Most of our sins toward those who are close to us are due to the fact that we become insulted and hurt over nothing.

No matter how far wrong you've gone, you can always turn around.

A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves a thousand moments of regret.

I've come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who never apologizes and therefore seeks no forgiveness. Because in the end it is our emotions that make us week, not our actions.

I almost forget that she still hates me, despite how hard I've fallen for her. And I've fallen. So hard. I've hit the ground.

Forgiveness is giving up hope of a better past. —UNKNOWN

After all, an apology forced before the speaker was ready to speak it was surely more insulting than no apology.

Forgiveness was a strange gift. One that had to be shared in order to be kept.