Quotes About Forgiveness

The imperfections of others never release us from the need to work on our own shortcomings.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

That's what our work can do: we remind people that things can change, that wounds can heal, that people can be forgiven, and that closed hearts can open again.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.

Because of Jesus' finished work of the cross, He will never be angry with you nor rebuke you even when you fail.

I don't see how you can give someone who lied to the extent that he did a second chance in the same line of work.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved.

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

Let his name be cleared and everyone else adjust their thinking. He had put in time, now they must do the work. His business was simple. Find Cecilia and love her, marry her and live without shame.

I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time."-A Great and Terrible Beauty

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

Don't live worried, frustrated or upset because of what somebody did or what didn't work out. Come back to a place of peace. It's not going to work against you; it's going to work for you.

Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.

I had good years when I took steroids, and I had bad years when I took steroids. But no matter what, I shouldn't have done it, and for that, I'm truly sorry.

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

I don't believe in public humiliation. It went out with the stocks.

I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor said to me the fact that I'm not living under a bridge as a crazy woman, talking to myself, is amazing.