Quotes about Forgiveness

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, 'God is not mad at you.' Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, 'That is exactly what I needed to hear today.' Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

But - but the greatest way to witness is by walking that straight and narrow and also realizing that you're going to mess up. That's what grace is for. We're going to fall, but we've got to get back up. And you've got to improve. And that's what I'm all about.

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

salvation does not bypass the history and memory of guilt, but rather builds upon and from it.

The Eucharist is our symbol of what it would mean for the Lord's Prayer to be answered fully: God feeding his people through the death and resurrection of Jesus, which establishes that new community of the Spirit in which forgiveness is the common currency.

It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive, totally understanding, unendingly patient, invariably tender and loving, unfailing in every area, anticipating every need, and making more than adequate provision. Such expectations put a man under an impossible strain

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.