Forgiveness Quotes - Page 34

Make peace with others. The only thing you can change about the past is the damage you may have done to relationships. You may need to make amends with some people and say sorry. Sometimes it feels like we have unfinished business if we leave something in a state of tension. Break the ice, admit you were wrong, and then you and the other person can let go of any bitterness and move on. Sometimes God won't let us rest with ourselves and be at peace unless we take care of certain things. The Bible says in Matthew 5, "Therefore if you are presenting your offering at the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you, leave your offering there before the altar and go; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering." Another good verse that is related to this is in Mark 11, "Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven will also forgive you your transgressions. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your transgressions." So we need to forgive others and we need to ask for their forgiveness if we have done them wrong. When Jesus was asked how many times we have to forgive others He said 70 times 7, as in, countless times. Joyce Meyer says, "Do yourself a favor and forgive," because you will never truly have peace until you forgive everyone and anyone who has done you wrong. Amen.

Lisa Bedrick

Knowledge of Self is very important, you can't be living in a world pretending to be someone you're not. No one will ever believe in you, when you don't have the courage to believe in yourself. You can not live to impress others solely not giving thought to express your true being. No one wants to interact with a pretender, a fake, a wannabe.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Everything that looks good may not be good for you. In life, we all take chances. You must carefully examine the pros and cons. People often times have certain hidden agendas. And, you might not realize until you're in too deep.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Your choices are the reason you are who you are today. When you look back, maybe thinking you shouldn't have done a particular thing, don't stay there. Live for this very moment. After all, this moment is what really matters, your past has come and gone. Move on,

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

God loves each person, I believe; although, just like we do in our private homes, He reserves His kingdom only for those whom He enjoys.

Criss Jami

There’s surprising relief and regeneration in finding ourselves within a moment of genuine grace, however small or temporary it may be.

Darrell Calkins

Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

With resentment, hearts burn in the fire of hatred. With forgiveness, hearts dance with pure joy.

Debasish Mridha

Forgiveness is the joy of friendship.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.

Mandy Hale

There are no regrets in life, only experiences. Every experience helps us to be what we can be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We only need grace to endure every situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards.

Gillian Duce

Love builds, encourages and strengthens.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When we begin to love and care for each other, we will share our challenges.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Sin drains strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!

Lailah Gifty Akita

People withhold their forgiveness, thinking that it makes them badass. But really, the unwillingness to forgive is merely the wishing that things were better. You wish that you had better, you wish that someone else were better so they could have treated you better... it’s you making wishes. And that’s not badass. To forgive is to be able to look at the person and say “I accept that you weren’t any better than what you were”, “I accept what you were you and couldn’t have been what I wished you to be”, “I accept that things were the way they were and weren’t any better.” The ability to forgive is intertwined with the ability to accept the reality of the way things are/ the way a person is or was. You stop wishing things and you just accept. And hope is what says to you: “One day you’ll have what’s better.

C. JoyBell C.

The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.

Shannon L. Alder

It has been utterly exhausting to love you.

Tan Redding

A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each and every mistake, another village idiot is shamed into nothingness and mindlessly shut down by the herd. This is a superficial peace made by force and by fear, one in which there is no freedom to breathe; and the reason it is impossible for man to maintain freedom and peace for everyone at the same time. Christ, on the other hand, transforms, instead of controls, by instilling his certain inner peace. This is the place where one realizes that only his holiness is and feels like true freedom, rather than like imprisonment, and, too, why Hell, I imagine, a magnified version of man's never-ending conflict between freedom and peace, would be the flesh's ultimate utopia - yet its ultimate regret.

Criss Jami

Talking to you is like talking to someone I’ve never met before. When did you become so competitive? When did you decide that you needed to win all of the time?’He stopped dead in the promenade and grabbed her hand, turning her to face him.He caught her by surprise. She leant her neck backwards slightly in defence.‘When I lost you.

Tan Redding

Don't let this consume you. Try not to blame me. Don't live in hate. Or grief. Just live.

Jackson Lanzing

One has to beckon the spiritual warrior inside oneself whenever it is deemed necessary for the task at hand. Courage is the fuel. Healing is the direction. Forgiveness is the balm. Love is the atmosphere Divine.

Donna Goddard

Forgiveness was work, Eduardo told victims' families--but so, then, was love, and deciding what was right, and defending it. Recusing yourself from judgment so you won't be tainted by the aggressor's sin is the same as turning away from empathy so you won't be touched by the victim's pain.

Jennifer duBois

At Times I Am A Flower...at times I am a flower ~singularly defined ...

Muse

The secret is in listening to our own inner voice.

Holly Elissa Bruno

In order to stay happy, You must learn from your wins and fails and accept all things that come your way as they are.

Auliq-Ice

Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them.

Auliq-Ice

To forgive is a decision, to forget takes effort, to heal is a process, to believe again takes courage.

Victoria Wen

Real courage is being kind again, after you've felt that your kindness was thrown in your face. To risk it once more, or even twice more takes a special strength.

Clare Bell

Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

Ann Voskamp

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

Criss Jami

Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

Edward M. Hallowell

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

O.A. Battista

Our hearts are all prison walls when we hold people captive with chains of unforgiveness.

Ikechukwu Izuakor

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

Kamand Kojouri

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Edward Albert

The things that may change our world to make better; smiling, helping, respecting, loving & forgiving.

Hussein Abdallah

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

Orson Scott Card

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

She understood now that while it had been wrong to kill Cansrel, it had also been right. The boy with the strange eyes had helped her to see the rightness of it. The boy who'd killed Archer. Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too terrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done.I forgive myself, though Fire. Today, I forgive myself.

Kristin Cashore

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Forgiveness is a powerful cure.

Sue Fitzmaurice

You have the power to shape your life the way that you want it to be. Every thought, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer, but everything imagined begins with a dream.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I’ve learned that you cannot be bitter and happy. You cannot be pitiful and powerful at the same time, you have to choose one of them. If you’ve had a lot of people that have hurt you, then you won’t help yourself by being bitter, resentful and pitiful about it. Forgiveness is freedom, and forgiveness is power.

Jeanette Coron

Is it your implication that no good will come of this expedition?’‘Oh it will, sir; there’s no denying that.’ Captain Chillingworth’s words emerged very slowly, as if they had been pulled up from a deep well of bitterness. ‘I am sure it will do a great deal of good for some of us. But I doubt I’ll be of that number, or that many Chinamen will. The truth is, sir, that men do what their power permits them to do. We are no different from the Pharaohs or the Mongols: the difference is only that when we kill people we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.

Amitav Ghosh

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.

Eckhart Tolle

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

Margaret Atwood

A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another and building a successful family is like building a home. A successful family based on unity, forgiveness and love takes careful planning, but it's worth every moment.

Munindra Misra

Happiness is a perception of the mind that comes from forgiveness and love.

Debasish Mridha

Your desire and willingness will call forth witnesses to Awakening, and there is nothing in form that can speed up Awakening – for form but witnesses to the desire within.

David Hoffmeister

The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free

Rasheed Ogunlaru

We all have our times of anger. It’s when we hang onto that anger it becomes a poison to our heart and mind.

Ron Baratono

All roads out of hell lead home.

Shannon L. Alder

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