Quotes about Forgiveness

We need to stop focusing on them and ask God to open our eyes to our own faults.

Turning around is a courageous choice —it's hard to do! It can hurt to take the plank out of your own eye, confront the past, change your focus, die to your pride, admit your wrong, deny your vengeance, face the person, risk another wound. And it takes courage to say you're sorry

Put the brakes on any runaway mental conversations you may be having with those who have wounded you.

Bitterness is like drinking poison hoping the other person gets sick.

Love is a choice — a decision we make to put the well-being of the other person before our own. And forgiveness is also a decision.

God has forgiven me. As an act of grateful worship, I choose to forgive others.

Wounding smashes relationships. We can never return to the way we were before the wounding took place, which in itself adds a dimension to our grief that is very deep. Yet it is possible for severed relationships to be reconciled.

Let go of the overwhelming desire to justify what you did and explain what they did.

Would the contagious cycle of pain in your life, or that of your family or church, be stopped if you would be the first to reach out, to give in, to say you are sorry, or at the very least open up a conversation on the source of the wounds?

But God loved Hagar. He loves those who just can't take it anymore and who run away. In fact, the Bible is filled with stories of His love for those like Hagar.

Ask Him to fill your life until you overflow with His love — even for those you don't like!

God's people don't always act like God's people should.