Quotes About Forgiveness

Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them. Blanche Somethings you forgive, somethings you never forgive. Kate

No matter what the situation may be, the right course of action is always compassion and love.

Life's too short to be stuck in your own past

She's still making me go over every detail of the affair. And, you know, whenever I check my email, everything's in the read folder because she's already gone through it all." "That's a horrible way to live—for you and for her. You know what Lorraine calls it?" "No." "Pain shopping. She's not getting healed by that. She's just getting retraumatized.

Submitting to God requires us to deal with the sin in our lives. Sin

The Lord gave David plenty of time to repent of his sins, but when he didn't, He sent the prophet Nathan to confront him (see 2 Samuel 11–12). The guilt tore up David and made him physically sick (see Psalm 32:3–4). He finally confessed his transgressions to the Lord and received forgiveness (see verse 5).

To confess (homologeo) means to acknowledge or to agree. You confess your sin when you say what God says about it: "I entertained a lustful thought, and that's a sin"; "I treated my spouse unkindly this morning, and that was wrong"; "Pride motivated me to seek that board position, and pride doesn't belong in my life.

I am no longer a product of my past, I am a product of the work of Christ on the cross.

We are not sinners in the hands of an angry God; we are saints who sin in the hands of a loving God.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that is left on the heel that crushed the violet.

churches must come to terms with their past and genuinely repent, or there will be no future.

While being reviled, [Jesus] did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously (1 Peter 2:23).

Jesus is the Truth, and He is the One who sets the captive free. Power for the believer comes in knowing and choosing the truth. We are to pursue truth because we already have all the power we need in Christ (see Ephesians 1:18-19). Furthermore, people in bondage are not liberated by what I do as a pastor, but by what they choose to believe, confess, renounce, and forgive.

They forget how much they used to love their own parents," she said, "when they were kids.

Any love is condemned to suffer a murderous persecution. We are impotent of feeling and do not forgive other people's love. So don't let anyone know that you love.

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to reinfect yourself. "Let the dead bury the dead" [Matthew 8:22; Luke 9:60]. Turn from appearances and assume the feeling that would be yours were you already the one you wish to be.

For all the suffering that you've put me through I'd suffer more if I resented you—

Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant.

For whoever believes that great advancement and new benefits make men forget old injuries is mistaken.

he who thinks new favours will cause great personages to forget old injuries deceives himself.

He who believes that new benefits will cause great personages to forget old injuries is deceived.

Anyone who believes that new benefits make men of high station forget old injuries deceives himself.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...

She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.