Forgiving Quotes
Refusal to forgive reveals we have minimized our offense against God and we have maximized a brother's offense against us.
Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.
You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free!
The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.
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.
To not forgive is to drink a little poison each day and expect the other person to die.
Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
When the Lord commands that we must forgive all men, that includes forgiving ourselves.
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)
We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.
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.
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.
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.
Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.
I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.
Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.
Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more.
Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.
We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.
God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
Don't forgive and never forget; Do unto others before they do unto you; and third and most importantly, keep your eye on your friends, because your enemies will take care of themselves!
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.
Our hearts do not need logic. They can love and forgive and accept that which our minds cannot comprehend. Hearts understand in ways minds cannot.
Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
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?
Forgiveness is not something that you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself, To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.
Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven.
Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.
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.
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!
You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.
I am now willing to forgive myself . . . for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself.
But in the end, we learn we can forgive most people. The cushion of mortality makes their wrongdoing seem less dark, and whatever roads they traveled seem less foolhardy.
