Quotes About Reflection

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.

In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

Transition begins in forgiveness.

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!

When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught up in moralistic self-judgments.

Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

I rest in the light of forgiveness.