Forgiveness Quotes - Page 15

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Children are meant to understand compassion and comfort because they have received compassion and comfort - and this should be in the family setting. A family should be a place where comfort is experienced and understood, so that the people are prepared to give comfort to others.

Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Forgiveness is not a moral issue. It is an energy dynamic... Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience. When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you. When you choose not to forgive, it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses that distort everything, and it is you who are forced every day to look at life through those contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.

In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your Lord shall open a door to you in your trouble: wait upon Him, as the night watch waiteth for the morning. He will not tarry. Go up to your watch-tower, and come not down, but by prayer, and faith, and hope, wait on.

Good to forgive, Best to forget.

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.