You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there’s a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them.””And there’s a lot to be said for knocking...

While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like ‘wormwood and gall’), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God’s love, new every morning. God’s mercy...

We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance.

You you think you need to forgive someone…you got it all wrong.

Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.

Det var en som kom til mamma og sa: “Deres datter er usedvanlig, hun snakker aldri stygt om noen.” Jeg husker det, jeg husker det helt tydelig. Men hvorfor? Stolte jeg på dem? Eller var...

When looking for the path to peace one comes to realize that peace is the path.” Peace can only be achieved by letting go of the past and accepting what is. But one can only...

Only Boiled Seeds are afraid of failure.

A cynical modification of letting go doesn’t bring forgiveness, it’s when, once you forgive, will you be able to let go.

Ultimately all kinds of fights end at forgiveness.

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No matter what you say, or how much you talk, someone isn’t really forgiven until you can stand beside them without wanting to slap them in the face.

Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.

I am speaking from experience when I say that forgiveness offered – especially when so undeserved – cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less...

Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim–letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from...

My past life is abundantly full of God’s mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Forgiveness doesn’t make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It’s turning back toward being what we really are.

How accommodating love is; it forgives everything.

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves to release us from the shackles of our past. The pain of those who wounded us may linger but it needn’t overshadow our happiness.

….life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.

Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

The Holy Spirit Asks that you accept the idea of one mind wholeheartedly, for this is the Correction to the error called ego. The ego was the belief in private minds with private thoughts, but...

There are crimes that are truly uncomely. With crimes, whatever they may be, the more blood, the more horror there is, the more imposing they are, the more picturesque, so to speak, but there are...

I’ve misplaced it all, but I can’t seem to lose my brother. It’s a priceless gift–to have his love at a time when I’ve done nothing to earn it.

Forgiveness is probably the most important self-esteem building process anyone can undertake. Forgiveness is an internal response to the fact that we cannot, under any circumstances, change the past. The only things we can change...

What I’ve learned over the years is that people shouldn’t be defined by a single mistake. Everyone messes up,” she said. “You have to forgive yourself and move one.

No one should ever be punished for feeling love.

I will look at the past, but I will not stare at it.

You should never hate anyone, not even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You had to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

It is more blessed to forgive.

In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that.

The story of grace is the Gospel of not just forgiveness, but also of redemption. God uses the weak, the ones who have failed and the ones who had run out of second chances long...

Forgiveness is not the act of doing nothing to the one who hurts you. It’s easy to do nothing, but hard to forgive.

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I...

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community ofhumans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners. But no onecan be in the presence of the God of the crucified Messiah...

Jesus taught us to pray, “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us” not forgive us and smite those bastards who hurt us.

Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories seemed to be covered in gossemer, fading behind a curtain of time and forgiveness.

I am doing what is right and from my heart against all odds.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Self-Forgiveness is the most important wand in all of Diagon Alley™.

They lie, you know. It’s not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.

God loves you in spite of your mistakes

God’s forgiveness doesn’t come cheaply, nor is it a ticket to do what we jolly well please because there’s a get out of jail free card at the end. Instead, it is the life-changing embrace...

You cannot do more than you can, so be gentle with yourself and quick to forgive your mistakes and to move on.

forgiveness happens when you know that the other is not responsible.

The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have...

Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone’s offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.