Quotes about Forgiveness
Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved - cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break....love did what hatred can not and never will.
- Charles Martin
We're all broken, all walk with a limp. Here is the truth about you and me: even when in a far-off country, wasted life, stripped bare, smeared, squandered, nothing but scar tissue and shameful, self-inflicted wounds, the love of the Father finds the son and daughter.
- Charles Martin
We stood in silence, and yet I heard a familiar voice saying, Listen here, child, that's God's little girl, baggage and all, so don't go judging the cover. He doesn't care what she looks like. He'll take her and us any way he can get us. Just like the woman at the well. Best you switch lenses and start seeing her that way too.
- Charles Martin
Hate is a powerful weapon. But it is powerless when it comes to cutting chains off the human heart.
- Charles Martin
No matter where you go, no matter whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no gone is too far gone. You can always come home.
- Charles Martin
Some are wrestling with painful words spoken over them by someone they love or walking around in chains of their own making.
- Charles Martin
You can't tell a dead man you're sorry.
- Charles Martin
Hatred and anger does not kill hatred and anger.
- Charles Martin
Man's greatest need is forgiveness while his greatest desire is power.
- Charles Martin
Could you wash Judas's feet?
- Charles Martin
I'm sorry I ever thought about eating you.
- Charles Martin
Here's the truth: No matter what happened on the stage tonight, no matter where you went when you drove out of here, no matter where you end up, no matter what happens, what you become, what you gain, what you lose, whether you succeed or fail, stand or fall, no matter what you dip your hands into...no gone is too far gone. You can always come home. And when you do, you'll find me standing right here, arms wide, eyes searching for your return. I love you.
- Charles Martin