Quotes related to Colossians 3:13
Forgiveness does not replace justice.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself
- Bishop TD Jakes
When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.
- Timothy Keller
Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
- Harold S. Kushner
Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.
- RT Kendall
There is hope in forgiveness
- John Piper
The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hookâeven if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.
- RT Kendall
Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.
- Joyce Meyer
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
- Thomas a Kempis
Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
- Desmond Tutu
Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.
- Zig Ziglar