Forgiving Quotes - Page 10

I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving is the model for our forgiving.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

When God forgives us for hitting Him with a club we should manage to put up with the pin pricks we get from our fellows.

To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.

You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.

We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.

You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.

The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?

Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging.