Forgiveness Quotes - Page 36

What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.

Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.

Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

If the will remains in protest, it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

If one by one we counted people out

There's a moment when all would go smooth and even, If only the dead could find out when To come back, and be forgiven.

To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.

If you, through poor judgment, were to cover your shoes with mud, would you leave them that way? Of course not. You would cleanse and restore them. Would you then gather the residue of mud and place it in an envelope to show others the mistake that you made? No. Neither should you continue to relive forgiven sin. Every time such thoughts come into your mind, turn your heart in gratitude to the Savior, who gave His life that we, through faith in Him and obedience to His teachings, can overcome transgression and conquer its depressing influence in our lives.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Will not God, who has commanded men to act thus, do as much himself and even more? For God commanded Peter to forgive till seventy times seven.

God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.

The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. [Ger., Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen Aber gottlich zu verzeihn.]

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

I free myself from hatred through forgiveness and love.

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.

Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?