Forgiveness Quotations | Page 8

Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.

Forgiveness is not about the other person or what they did. Forgiveness is for YOU and about YOU.

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act. It is a permanent attitude. That which I was not but could have been. That which I would have done but did not do. Can I find the fortitude to remember in truth,to understand, to submit, to forgive and to be free to move on in time?

In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

We forgive but not forgotten

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

I free myself from hatred through forgiveness and love.

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

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.'

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

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.

I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand...

Forgiveness is God's command.

Do you think that every time you make a mistake, He is mad at you and won't talk to you...or that you must somehow make up for it?...Many Christians fail to experience real peace because they don't understand that they are righteous in Christ. Until people stop living according to the way they feel and stand on who they are in Christ, they will never find true happiness.

Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

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.

We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation.

Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option.

Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive your spouse for what they said. At the start of the day, let go of the disappointments, the set backs from yesterday. Start every morning fresh and new. God did not create you to carry around all that baggage. Let it go and move forward in the life of blessing He has in store for you!

You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you've got and remember what you had...Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on.

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.

Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome. The last thing they need is for you to make matters worse by responding angrily.

Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.

Forgiveness doesn't mean that what that person did was right or that you even have to get back into a relationship with that person. Forgiveness simply releases the debt they owe you so that God can release the debt you owe Him. Ask the Lord to search your heart and show you if there is any unforgiveness blocking His blessing in your life. Ask Him to show you more about this gift of forgiveness so that you can walk in the freedom and victory He has for you today.

FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy...Double The Victory.

When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves.

If you feel "stuck" today, you may want to examine what you're holding on to. Be willing let go of past disappointments by choosing forgiveness. Who hurt you? Who wronged you? Release it to God. Do you need to forgive yourself? Do you need to receive God's forgiveness? Let go of the past so you can overcome disappointments and experience the bright future God has in store for you! There is freedom in forgetting!

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.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies,

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you know it we become violent and demanding and manipulative. It's so important that we keep forgiving one another - not once in a while, but every moment of life.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

I can forgive but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; ... This alone is Life, Joy, Empire, Victory.

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.

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

The only way to peace is forgiveness.

There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness

If we learn to say we're sorry and ask forgiveness, the marriage will last.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

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

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

To be social is to be forgiving.

Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

If one by one we counted people out

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

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.

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.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

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

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.

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

All forgiveness is self forgiveness.

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.