Forgiveness Quotes - Page 38

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job.

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

In a man they forgive anything. In a woman nothing.

Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.

These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

Temper justice with mercy.

For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store.

You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of hose wrongs they've done to you. Get that bitterness out of your life. That's the only way you're going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison.

The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.

Forgiveness is the path to healing.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

Forgive, forget, learn the lesson and move forward!

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

It may be easier to get forgiveness than permission, but trust is harder to get back than both.

Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.

As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't.

We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.

My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender.

Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.