Strange infatuation seems to grace the evening tide. I want you to be free, but it is your sorrow that has made a slave of me… I wish to know how to keep you… You...

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could give me – your admiration, your acceptance, your love, your forgiveness. I forgot to...

If you haven’t figured it out by now, the words grace, love, and forgiveness are nearly synonymous.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

A Great Rabbi stands, teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife’s adultery, and a mob carries her to the marketplace to stone her to death.There is...

But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself.

The first time you tried to save people, you were certain of victory?””Yes. In my pride, I knew I could not fail.””Then, in your mind, you were risking nothing. Are you certain of victory tonight?”Roman...

Sometimes a person can say I’m sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.

Forgiveness is a powerful cure.

My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it’s not really forgiveness. It’s Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you’re trying...

Forgiveness is for you, not the other person.

Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is – a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue....

Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you.

There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency...

When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute. Your anger...

n order to capture someone’s attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in.

Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.

I said in a previous chapter that chastity was the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. But I am not sure I was right. I believe there is one even more unpopular. It is laid...

Forgive for yourself and for the peace it will bring to your pain.

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God’s forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive . . . by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don’t lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That’s why a...

People have to forgive. We don’t have to like them, we don’t have to be friends with them, we don’t have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to...

Renewal of the mind is good for the soul because it allows you to be focused and gain understanding of your life choices. It allows you to renew your spirit and become uplifted filled with...

The gentle waters poured from the heavens, baptizing the two angels in a healing shower that washed away their differences, lifting the veil from their sight, and they knew they were the same.

No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your...

To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack...

Forgiveness is not turning the other cheek. Forgiveness is not running away. Forgiveness does not mean that you condone what the person has done, nor does it mean that you invite them to do it...

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.