Forgiveness Quotes - Page 21

If I left any good or planted any flowers among thorns, the credit goes to God and my many substantial friends.
Reverend Ada Caston Slaton Bonds
I hope my forgiveness reminds you,Of the part you forgot to break in me.
Jenim Dibie
Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don’t think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.
Steve Goodier
Universe, tell me about the time when the world was kind, when words didn't shatter the souland leave people bleeding into the crease of their smile. tell me about the time when people wouldn't hide behind sarcasm or humor to mask themselves from dying slowly on the inside. Universe, tell me the names of all the stars in your sky, because I may have met one the other night.His presence in my thoughts, his touch in my heart and no longer a dream but laying next to me now. There are marks on my body from the energy of our light.He is broken, like me, a fallen star. Yet, aspires to soar and believes he can fly. I too believe in dreams.Universe, do you think you can do somethingabout all the lonely souls? the broken? the fallen stars?There are so many of us.And what about the hurt? the pain? the restlessness?Oris this all part of something bigger, a lesson to be learnt? so we can become a part of you?Universe, it’s me, Please hear my soul speak, my heart beat,I've learnt my lesson.Forgive me.Offer me redemption or bring me back to you.Universe, are you there?
Rina Nath
Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died.
Jenim Dibie
Life is never easy for any one. Be gentle with one another.
Lailah Gifty Akita
I was thinking about changing into a different sort of person than the one I am. I do think about that. I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same. What has Cam ever done that actually hurt me, anyway, as Haro once said. And how am I better than he is after the way i felt the night Mother lived instead of died? I made a promise to myself i would try.I went over there one day taking them a bakery cake - which Cam eats now as happily as anyone else - and I heard their voices out in the yard - now it’s summer, they love to sit in the sun - Mother saying to some visitor, “Oh, yes I was, I was all set to take off into the wild blue yonder, and Cam here, this idiot, came and danced outside my door with a bunch of his hippie friends - ‘t‘My God, woman,’ roared Cam, but you could tell he didn’t care now, ‘members of an ancient holy discipline.”tI had a strange feeling, like I was walking n coals and trying a spell so I wouldn’t get burnt.tForgiveness in families is a mystery to me, how it comes or how it lasts
Alice Munro
Sometimes all you need is to forgive yourself.
Unarine Ramaru
A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness begins on ours.
L.G. Abell
Forgiveness was a mere noun; a fleeting concept of little importance in the grand scheme of written and spoken language, and was thereby spilt freely like cheap, overabundant wine without consequence. Yet forgive was a verb and in turn held far more potency; an action that must be genuine and consciously performed without reservation in order to fully embody the idea behind it. It was both a plea and an affirmation that could only be acknowledged as obtainable through the mutual contract of expression and acceptance between two parties of equal understanding. Enacting forgiveness was and always would be more difficult than simply declaring that the concept itself existed, and the irreversible condition of the human heart would forever ensure that such disparity would remain fact.
Mallory Perkins
May we greet each other with a smile, hug and speak kind words.
Lailah Gifty Akita
The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else, there is the Art of Acceptance.
Rebecca O’Dwyer
You should never forget. But you should try to forgive.
Michelle Madow
We fall away, but God redeem us.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Do you want to look back and wish you’d handled this differently? Most of us go through life feeling invincible, but none of us know what day will be our last. Is holding on to your anger truly worth it?
Michelle Madow
Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise.
Jay Woodman
Write this word deeply into our consciousnesses: forgive! We are bound to develop desires, and to use our will to seek after those desires, whether they be for things worldly or hallowed, for possessions, attributes or the lack of them, and as we achieve our desires, we will find the side effects of each and every one. We will wrong others, for the most part unintentionally, but still, we will err, and others will wrong us, whether they mean to or not. We generally are simply moving too quickly, and judging people and situations too hastily.
Carla L. Rueckert
As women, we almost never give ourselves enough credit for what we're capable of, for what we endure and how giving we are. Part of loving yourself is about forgiving yourself - which is something I've always struggled with. It's the messy parts that make us human, so we should embrace them too - pat ourselves on the back for getting through them rather than being angry for having gotten into them in the first place. Because loving yourself is ultimately about self-acceptance, about embracing every part of who you are. And that's never just one thing.
Jennifer Lopez
Give people the chance to change.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Give people the chance to change their heart.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Be compassionate with all people. Give them the chance to change.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Be compassionate with all people.
Lailah Gifty Akita
A dove will never nest in a burning tree, nor will love ever reside in unforgiving heart.
Jason Versey
A dove will never be found in a burning tree and love will never be found in a heart that won't forgive.
Jason Versey
If someone puts you through hell, don’t be mad or bitter about it, because the thing that will free you from that hell is forgiveness.
Jeanette Coron
When you forgive your enemy, you may no longer have one.
Debasish Mridha M.D.
By not forgiving yourself you are limiting your ability to give to others.
Danielle Joworski
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.
Henry David Thoreau
Forgiveness doesn’t make wrong things right. It remembers that what is right far outshines what is wrong.
Alan Cohen
Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Laugh it off, Life gets better.
Touaxia Vang
You must first forgive yourself in order to forgive others.
Debasish Mridha
If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.
Matt Chandler
The cost of forgiveness is less than the price of bitterness
Systenious Makhubele
The essence of life is the power of love.
Lailah Gifty Akita
When you encounter another person…it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation? If you confront insult or antagonism, your first impulse will be to respond in kind. But if you think, as it were, This is an emissary sent from the Lord, and some benefit is intended for me, first of all the occasion to demonstrate my faithfulness, the chance to show that I do in some small degree participate in the grace that saved me, you are free to act otherwise than as circumstances would seem to dictate. You are free to act by your own lights. You are freed at the same time of the impulse to hate or resent that person. He would probably laugh at the thought that the Lord sent him to you for your benefit (and his), but that is the perfection of the disguise, his own ignorance of it…I am reminded of this precious instruction by my own great failure to live up to it recently…
Marilynne Robinson
There are new mercies every morning.
Lailah Gifty Akita
...according to God's Word, we should not give a singe drop of evangelical consolation to those who are still living in sin. ON THE OTHER HAND, we should not address the slightest threat or rebuke to the broken hearted--but only promises delivering consolation and grace, forgiveness of sin and righteousness. Life and salvation.
C.F.W. Walther
God’s forgiveness is not just a casual statement; it is the complete blotting out of all dirt and degradation of our past, present, and future.
Billy Graham
She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.
Philip Pullman
A book about books is like a poem about poetry:Books are knowledge, paid for, all.Readers - horses in a stall.Stallions should always run.Lest they stale become, in turn.Running waters are most clear.In some books, you disappear –lose yourself, and track of time.How I wish that one was mine...Mine, to have, to write, to read...Mine, just like a flying steed.Mine, forever, - to improve.Would I then, of me, approve?I would not, I can't... myself.I'm but dust, swept off a shelf.Fly, can I, just 'til I'm settled,down, beside my flower, petalled.
Will Advise
The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.
Jon Krakauer
You have to forgive yourself for your past mistakes, and you have to forgive those that hurt you for what they did to you, or you're never going to fully move on.
Jennifer Gracen
The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith—and He will forgive.
Billy Graham
Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.
Billy Graham
When we take too long to forgive the people we love, we can sometimes be too damn late for it to matter.
Monika Basile
God offered the greatest and most wonderful gift freely, while we were still sinners. It is a gift for any and every one, no matter how broken, how far, or how dark. He didn’t require us to change before we came, but offered a way out while we were at our worst.
Sarah Holman
He who possesses forgiveness is able to enjoy true happiness.
Debasish Mridha
I was mortified that I could spend a lifetime with someone and not know them at all—that I could love someone so blindly and never question who they really were. Was it stupidity? Or is that merely what love actually is—to see the good, to love the good and wonderful and ignore the rest? I think that is what I used to believe…I don’t believe that anymore.Love is seeing every damn rotten thing about someone and loving them anyway. It’s not being too afraid to look deep inside another person and still being able to see all the good messed up in with the bad. Love is accepting the shit as well as the roses. I think I failed to ever smell the bullshit. I only smelled the roses and never realized that it is the shit that makes the roses bloom.
Monika Basile
To lose--get angry and fight back. To win--forgive with love.
Debasish Mridha
To extend compassion to a so-called villain, to forgive those who have wronged you, and to find common ground with someone who has been awfully isolated are not acts typically met with fireworks and swelling violins. More often than not, they are pushed away. To love, really love, is to do them anyway.
Vironika Tugaleva
The best revenge is true forgiveness.
Debasish Mridha
People tended to forgive only partially. They forgave in order to, one day, get a chance to remind those they’d forgiven about their failings. They forgave to feel righteous. That’s why forgiveness was so painful – because it meant conceding. It meant letting go of her case without a rebuttal. True forgiveness knew no justice. It was liberating, most probably… but freedom comes at a cost. Freedom is never free.
Adelheid Manefeldt
Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership . . .that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven.
Billy Graham
We make a mockery of God’s forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will forgive it later.
Billy Graham
Forgiveness is freedom. Forgiveness is liberation. Forgiveness is a choice. If you forgive and forget you are free but, if you keep it, you shall always have it and it shall always rule and direct your heart, mind, body and spirit.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It became clear to him that all the dreadful evil he had been witnessing in prisons and jails and the quiet self-satisfaction of the perpetrators of this evil were the consequences of men trying to do what was impossible; trying to correct evil while being evil themselves...Now he saw clearly what all the terrors he had seen came from, and what ought to be done to put a stop to them. The answer he could not find was the same that Christ gave to Peter. It was that we should forgive always an infinite number of times because there are no men who have not sinned themselves, and therefore none can punish or correct others.
Leo Tolstoy
He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.
H.W. Brands
We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.
Billy Graham
Christ can take the most sin-laden, selfish, evil person and bring forgiveness and new life.
Billy Graham

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