Quotes about Forgiveness

Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.

Walking in love means giving the other person what he or she needs the most when it is least deserved, because that's exactly how God has treated you.

Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

Elizabeth, it comes down to this: Jesus shed His blood on the cross. He died for you, even when you did not deserve it. And He rose from the grave and offers forgiveness and salvation for anyone who turns to Him. But the Bible also says that we can't ask Him to forgive us while refusing to forgive others.

If . . . My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

When you got born again your past was not erased, it became non-existent.

What is a peacemaker? Peacemakers are the mercy of God to a sinful world.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged.

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.

When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative.

Carrying a grudge is a heavy burden. As you forgive, you will feel the joy of being forgiven. At this Christmastime you can give and receive the gift of forgiveness. The feeling of happiness that will come will be a glimpse of what we can feel at home together in the eternal home for which we yearn.