Forgiveness Quotes - Page 8

To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.

Dear lost sinner, if you are a wicked sinner, yet you do not have to die and go to Hell forever. If you are a criminal or a harlot, a blasphemer, a drunkard, a convict, or a dope fiend, God does not want you to go to Hell. People do not go to Hell simply because they are sinners. Rather they go because they will not repent of their sins! If you today will confess your sins to God, and in your poor, helpless heart, will, as far as you know how, turn away from your sin, God will have mercy and will forgive and save.

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can. But only after you kick him out of the house. And if you can't get him out, get help. It's available. In the meantime, don't let him near the kids, and don't let anyone tell you that if you forgive him it means you have to stay with him. [There's an important difference between forgiving a person and tolerating their bad behavior.]

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Hatred is one long wait.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.