Quotes about Forgiveness

Don't blame God for the behavior of the people who have wounded you. I understand the desperate desire to run from them, but not from Him.

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment.

We'll buy back our own harm with what is most dear to us.

Dire and beyond all healing is the hate When hearts that loved are turned to enmity.

Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped form him - as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply—I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade

The imagery of rescue and victory places the themes of reconciliation and forgiveness into another context altogether, where they are brought in under the heading of God acting to make right what has been wrong (rectification). Then, and only then, can the whole complex of ideas and images be located where it belongs, on the battlefield of Christ against the Powers. This is the overarching panorama against which to place the imagery of the Great Assize, or Last Judgment.

The well-known passage in Micah 6:8 ('does the Lord require of you?') declares that justice and mercy are two foundational aspects of God's character... forgiveness is by no means as simple or expeditious as is often suggested; it is a complex and demanding matter. The question of forgiveness and compensation really should not be discussed apart from the question of justice.