A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide to say about it is what leaves a shadow. The only way to erase that shadow...

God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling…

It’s crazy what a heart blinded by love can lead you to believe.

God is love—He is gracious and forgives.

I think sometimes when we grew up with a parent who is deeply flawed….we learn, subconsciously at least, to expect the worst from everyone else as well….Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be that way forever....

Inevitable is not the same as immediate, Sieh–and love does not mandate forgiveness.

Still hurting so much today from what my prior Pastor and 19church board did to me last year, and I really want to get past that. I want and need to forgive them, to move...

He forgives without any strings attached.

Rejecting God’s truth b/c of mankind’s hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind’s incompetence.

I didn’t answer. We were not buddies. We could not chat about the proximity of our offices, or football, or forgiveness.

Not only is forgiveness the most tender part of love, it is always a choice and always accompanied by unconditional love. May you always be forgiving,kind and gracious, especially when others are undeserving.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

…if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the...

Sin builds up. Forgiveness cleans up.

God doesn’t care how well you can preach about forgiveness… what He looks at is your behavior when presented the opportunity to practice it.

A delicate balance is required: keep the penitent tautly close to the point of recognizing sin, and then allow the relief of that pressure to flow through forgiveness. Confession increases this tautness, only to clear...

Revenge is but a temporary gratification, but that which stays within you longer is the guilt and sin after revenging making you not much of a better person.

But she stopped herself. That wouldn’t make it right. You didn’t forgive because it was the only choice you thought you had. That didn’t make it forgiveness, that made it desperation. She’d always been too...

Defensiveness is usually someone silently screaming that they need you to value and respect them in disguise. When you look for deeper meanings behind someone’s pain you can then begin to heal not only yourself,...

The hurt, resentment, the revenge, the pride, and regret are thrown hard and fast like snowballs in the winter. Some major ones hit hard; some minor ones just roll off, while others stick for an...

Smiling is not a choice, it’s a lifestyle. Pass it on.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

When you deeply and completely love yourself, you find there is nothing to forgive because everyone and everything has contributed to who you are now.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

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...

I’m a good enough person to forgive you, and you should be a good enough person to not do it again.

The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. “There will be more rejoicing in heaven...

She didn’t care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.

If you or I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

Bless them that persecute you.’ If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies...

Somebody becomes an enemy if you personalize the unconsciousness that is the ego. Non-reaction is not weakness but strength. Another word for non-reaction is forgiveness. To forgive is to overlook, or rather to look through....

Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can...

No, I don’t believe it,” Joseph said. “From listening to my father and grandfather talk about El Shaddai, I think he’s different from the gods of Egypt. I think that none of us could ever...

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is...

If you want to master your past at some point in time you’ll have to learn forgiveness.

It seems like every day you have to deal with problems, interpersonal problems, survival, and so on and so forth. But you only have one problem and there is one solution to that problem. Isn’t...

Sweet Evelyn, I think, I should have loved you better.Possessing perfect knowledge I hover above him as he hacks me to bits. I see his rough childhood. I see his mother doing something horrid to...

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

Now, we all have stories of how we got here, and prob-probably some of you feel angry who whoever it is who’s left you here. But you must try and remember that they were like...

When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can’t really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks....

Three essential keys (FAITH, HOPE and LOVE) will open the Heavens door.

If forgiveness, kindness and humanity could have changed something; today we would have been living a peaceful world.

May our hearts be filled with great love for one another.

Self love and forgiveness is a liberation.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person’s face. When you forgive, it’s like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

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...

What he did was wrong. He doesn’t deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it’s choked and overrun. The only person...

You’ve got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind… And each time it plays you feel the clap...