Before you can live a part of you has to die. You have to let go of what could have been, how you should have acted and what you wish you would have said differently....

…God’s grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver…. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who...

Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.

Living your life is a task so difficult it has never been attempted before.

Newton, forgive me.

We say of some things that they can’t be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do–we do it all the time.

The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.

Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you.Acts 13:38

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...

Intentionally or involuntarily, your earthly and spiritual fathers will lead you the perfect Father. You might not recognize it, but even when they fail, they create the perfect scenario for you to run into your...

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up...

Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.

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

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

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that.

You may not be able to do anything about how you feel; but you can do something about how you act. People will definitely offend you willing or unwilling by their words and actions…but you...

Sometimes we learn the most about forgiveness when we realize how desperately we need it ourselves.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not...

When I was a little girl my understanding of revenge was as simple as the Sunday school proverbs it hid behind. Neat little morality slogans like, do un to others and two wrongs don’t make...

If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can’t set us free of it. He won’t take those things by force.

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the...

…and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth.

Look deeply into your soul. You have enough grace and strength to overcome any struggle.

Revenge is a bad policy if you gain nothing out of it, but under the same circumstances, forgiveness is even a worse one.

When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one’s self.To mind one’s own business.Not to want to manage other people’s affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To...

The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Marriage is three parts love and seven parts forgiveness of sins.

Apologizing is different from begging, it doesn’t change your status, go ahead and get on your knees, spill tears if you got it, for the person you offended, if at all you had a place...

What you cant forget… God cant remember!

I will never forget what you did to me. I will never forgive it. I will never stop mourning what you stole from me. But I realize now I can’t steal it back and I’m...

…it’s easy to express romantic love – harder to manage daily love – to forgive failings close to feelings – to divide self from soul…

There’s no task in this life more difficult than forgiving a loved one,when we’re hurt by someone we love,something breaks inside us that leaves us paralyzed and unable to think clearly,if your love was true...

Just remember, someday you might be asking for forgiveness. And if that day were to come, you would want it, wouldn’t you?

The trust of those in dark need is forgiving work.

There are things without explanation, moments when life will become arranged in such odd ways that you imagine a whole vocabulary of meaning inside them. The breakfast smell struck me like that.

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

More Miracles occur from Gratitude and Forgiveness than anything else

Is God-like forgiveness humanly possible? Yes, if it remains God’s work! Forgiveness is not something we can accomplish on our own or within our own power (no more than we make the kingdom of God...

Forgiveness is not an emotion, it’s a decision.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart’s shackles.

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t still broken.

No matter what goals you set to accomplish always remember there is a thing known as life which you should never forget to live and enjoy.

What allowed me to take that first step, to choose growth and risk rejection? In the fixed mindset, I had needed my blame and bitterness. It made me feel more righteous, powerful, and whole than...

To live a wonderful life create more, buy less, hug more, scold less, give more, take less, forgive more, worry less and be grateful everyday for life.

It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive,...

We don’t forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it—because we need it.