Quotes about Forgiveness

The resulting hurt of any form of rejection can linger and entangle us from moving forward if we don't put it behind us.

Even when people turned on Jesus, He didn't let a goodbye turn Him into someone He was never meant to be

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along. Lord, let me end this the right way.

Today's rejections, big or subtle, are like stealth bombs that zing straight to my core, locating hurts from my past and making them agonizingly present all over again.

But then we also must walk through the much longer process of forgiving and healing from the impact another person's actions have had on us. Forgiveness is a command by God, but reconciliation should be very conditional on many factors—most of all whether all parties involved can stay safe ad healthy if they stay together.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

The idea is not that Israel returns to Yahweh and therefore Yahweh forgives it and restores it; it is rather that Yahweh forgives it and restores it, and this action must draw Israel to return to Yahweh (Is 44:21-22).

It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

I renounce every limit I have ever placed on Jesus. I renounce every limit I have placed on him in my life. I break all limitations, renounce them, revoke them. Jesus, forgive me for restraining you in my life.