Quotes about Forgiveness

Patience gives your spouse permission to be human. It understands that everyone fails. When a mistake is made, it chooses to give them more time that they deserve to correct it. It gives you the ability to hold on during the rough times in your relationship rather than bailing out under the pressure.

Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative assumptions. And when our worst hopes are proven to be true, love makes every effort to deal with them and move forward. As much as possible, love focuses on the positive.

...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.

Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.

It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.

Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you.

Reward those who help you. Forget those who use you. Ignore those who judge you. Forgive those who wrong you.

It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has been strong enough to change Him.

If you don't find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you're teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.