War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but...

I just thought I was empty and now I’m being filled…and I just wanted to keep being filled.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another’s control… to be...

The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ’s forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror...

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone’s dining room window.

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father-“”The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl.” He sounds bitter and sad.”If the world will not forgive me,” I say softly, “I...

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God’s own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Healing Follows Forgiveness

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget.

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations...

Better to be blinded by love than hate; one forgives and the other refuses.

Forgiveness is one of the keys to moving forward because if you don’t forgive, you are stuck in the past.

Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the heart and cools the sting.

Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another’s folly to set ourselves free.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Pray GOD by HEART, Not by HABIT.

And there, right in the middle of it, I find ‘Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.’ There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other...

When you reach out to those you need to forgive, it is you that will be touched and healed.

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

You know some religious scholars believe that when faced with overwhelming temptation you should commit a small sin just to relieve the pressure a bit.

I shall never find nor seek forgiveness, especially after such an action!

For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone...

Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can’t change, and shackled to decisions that you didn’t make.

… forgiveness is a four letter word: Love.

Love me, then, or hate me, as you will,” I said at last, “you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God’s, and be at peace.

hyperbolic” ethical vision of forgiveness’. Even if I were not sure of the words ‘vision’ or ‘ethics’ in this case, let us say that only this inflexible exigence can orient a history of laws, and...

Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.

The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace.

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

The worst tragedy of sin isn’t that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

(on forgiveness) Didn’t he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.

I said the Lord’s Prayer hundreds of times, hoping to forgive the killers who were murdering all around me. It was no use-every time I got to the part asking God to “forgive those who...

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

I may not give you the forgiveness you’re asking, but i’m giving you forever to make me forgive you.

Forgiveness is really just another word for freedom.

If you have the grace to hug someone, never miss this sacred moment.

We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,and bitterly wept as we bore him along.For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome, we all loved our comrade although he’d done...

God is merciful to all who repent and turn to Him.

We need to extend forgiveness to all who have hurt us. Forgive others who have trespass you just as your Heavenly Father forgives you. God’s grace is the power to forgiveness.

…when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can’t decide if it’s because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still...

If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn’t have found a reason to let you go.

Forgiveness is not death. It is life.

It is not unreasonable to want repentance from a wrongdoer before forgiving that wrongdoer, since, in the absence of repentance, hasty forgiveness may harm both the forgiver and the wrongdoer. The forgiver may be harmed...

At some point, you have to set down the past. At some point, you have to accept that everyone was doing their best. At some point, you have to gather yourself up, and go onward...

Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Jesus always seems to be pairing God’s forgiveness of us with our forgiveness of others. But why? Growing up, I thought it was...

If, before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never...

Whenever relationships can’t be restored, it’s because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God.