Quotes about Forgiveness

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i see.

One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.

To accept people is to be for them. It is to recognize that it is a very good thing that these people are alive, and to long for the best for them. It does not, of course, mean to approve of everything they do. It means to continue to want what is best for their souls no matter what they do.

It is not bad to pray in a time of crisis. One of God's most amazing attributes is that he is humble enough to accept people when they turn to him in sheer desperation, even when they have been ignoring him for years.

The first stage of forgiveness is the decision not to try to inflict a reciprocal amount of pain on everyone who has caused hurt. When I forgive you, I give up the right to hurt you back.

He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Isa. xliii. 22, "Thou hast not called upon me, thou hast been weary of me.

So it seems to have been with David after his sin with Bathsheba. I doubt not but that before the message of God to him by Nathan, he had unpleasing thoughts of what he had done; but there are not the least footsteps in the story or any of his prayers that he laid it seriously to heart and was humbled for it before. This

No matter what pain, what hard things come to us in life—and pain and trouble come to all of us—no matter what dark roads we walk or poor choices we make, it is not the end of the story.

My peace, my companionship," Olivia said softly, "come from my surety that the Lord loves me. Surety that because I've asked, believing He's redeemed me, He's also forgiven me and accepts me—now, as I am. He lives inside me, walks beside me, in the form of His Holy Spirit. He holds my heart, my life. He is my heart, my life." As