Quotes about Forgiveness
Grace isn't about "fair," but about the outrageous, radical love of God.
- Sheila Walsh
Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. —C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY
- Sheila Walsh
Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends. Proverbs 17:9
- Sheila Walsh
Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.
- Dallas Willard
If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.
- Desmond Tutu
Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.
- Desmond Tutu
Did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.
- Elie Wiesel
I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.
- Shane Claiborne
No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.
- Kevin DeYoung
I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.
- Louise Hay
In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.
- Martin Luther
I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky