Quotes about Forgiveness

When you forgive someone, it gives you room in your heart to love them.

Dodge, be honest. It's not close to over. You've been nursing this wound for nearly ten years, working it off over there in Afghanistan, trying to forget the girl you've loved since you were ten. There's no way this is over. There is so much bitterness sitting in your heart you can't even see it. But maybe that's why God brought you back - for her. And to set you free from all that darkness.

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving, Echo. It's for yourself. It's what you do to be set free.

love doesn't come from us - it's born in us, a birthright from God. We can't manufacture it, we can only release what He's given us. That nudge to forgive? I told you— I think that's love trying to break free.

And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future.

His voice softened, and he looked at her, his beautiful eyes glossy. "Cookie, if I could, I'd start all over with you. Do things right. Honor us both." ...His mouth opened. Closed. He swallowed, and a single tear dripped onto his cheek.

God's already forgiven you. You need to forgive yourself and let God love you. Be His child, and embrace His grace. You can't create your own heaven on earth. That's His job. If you try to do it yourself, you'll never experience the love of God fulfilling your wildest dreams.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Sometimes there's just no room for apologies.

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.