Quotes about Forgiveness

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

Because you have messed up, many of you believe your calling has been annulled. The devil is a liar, for "the gifts and calling of God are without repentance" (Rom. 11:29). That is, they are irrevocable—He's not taking them back.

If you have been betrayed or wounded by someone you brought too close, please forgive them. They really were a blessing. You will only be better when you cease to be bitter!

Because we have offered no provision for sons and daughters who fall, many of our Adams and our Eves are hiding in the bushes.

Have you ever been guilty of having a condescending attitude about another person's weakness? How can we dare to think we can access the soul-cleansing blood that delivers us from the cesspool of our secret sins, and then look down on another member of Christ's Body in disdain?

Forgiveness was a strange gift. One that had to be shared in order to be kept.

How easy it was to slip back into the comfort of one's own life, even into one's own worries and fears, and to unintentionally forget. Tears rose to her eyes. Her throat tightened. Oh, Lord. forgive me....Help me to be more grateful.

Because when the Judgment Day came and everyone's sins were laid bare, she knew that no nails would be left clutched in anyone's hands or stuffed in anyone's pockets. Including her own. That everyone would have driven their very last nail into the hands and feet of Jesus. So yes, even as she struggled to move forward and seek understanding of all that had happened, she would leave Hood and this entire horrible war at the cross of Christ.