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.

You blame me and my country for your losses Miss Kimball. And I blame you and your country. But you and I are people, not countries. Did you kill my wife? My child? Would you...

It is a difficult thing―if not impossible―to forgive oneself for foolish errors, not for trampling a life or goring another with sharp horns, but for being the fool who opened the gate and let the...

It’s all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

There is no point in burying the hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.

I respect all the innocent souls because they are kind enough to forgive the selfish people around them.

If you love someone let them know, if you hate someone learn to love them.

Whatever comes our way, whatever battle we have raging inside of us, we always have a choice. It is our choices that makes us who we are, and we always have a choice to do...

Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways we’re connected. I sometimes think everything comes out even in the end, but an end that arches...

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God’s eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the...

…she eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

The only principle of Success in Life :”You must be present to win.

The heart stays heavy if it remains in a state of unforgiveness.

If he couldn’t forgive you for what you’d done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.