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Quotes about Forgiveness

I've become a master of the apology.
- Letitia Baldrige
I believe, in life, you always get a second chance.
- Fabio Lanzoni
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
- Peter Marshall
But," you may ask, "how can we forget the unkind things that are said...the cruel and unfair treatment one has received? How can we simply forget these things? It is not as simple as that!" There is just one sure way. Never talk about them, and never think about them. If you want to forget something, never speak even to your dearest friend about it. When it bobs into your mind, banish it at once. It will surprise you how quickly you can forget anything by that treatment.
- Peter Marshall
God never loses any part of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing.
- Peter Scazzero
Lewis Smedes sums up the dangers of superficial forgiveness: "We will not take healing action against unfair pain until we own the pain we want to heal. It is not enough to feel pain. We need to appropriate the pain we feel: Be conscious of it, take it on, and take it as our own … I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain.
- Peter Scazzero
Salvation is a gift of grace.
- Peter Scazzero
there is nothing we can do or not do that would cause God to love us any more than he does right now.
- Peter Scazzero
Our debts (sins) are cancelled.
- Peter Scazzero
God never discards any of our past for his future when we surrender ourselves to him. He is the Lord! Every mistake, sin, and detour we take in the journey of life is taken by God and becomes his gift for a future of blessing when we surrender ourselves to him.
- Peter Scazzero
To become a Christian and to be adopted into God's family with the new name of "Christian" does not erase the past. God does not give us amnesia or do emergency emotional/spiritual reconstructive surgery. God does forgive the past, but he does not erase it. We are given a new start, but we still come in as babies drinking milk and are expected to die daily to the parts of our lives that do not honor God and follow Jesus.
- Peter Scazzero
Unhealed wounds open us up to habitual sin against God and others.
- Peter Scazzero