In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I’m keeping a chart.

So sad is a man who has never learned to forgive

Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!” EL

I’ve thought of it ever since, the idea that we don’t stray far, that what feels like discovery is only the revealing of what was hidden but there, waiting. I remember because I think this...

How can I forgive if you are not ready to give up that which caused you to stumble?

No relationship, Chrissy, I don’t care how truly, madly, deeply it is…No relationship survives on hope. It’s forgiveness that keeps it alive.

I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life...

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.

So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn’t forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you can’t...

So I let her go, too. And I’m sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi

A real man does not beg forgiveness but earn it.

Love is a spark of light.

To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry.

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...

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.

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.