Quotes about Forgiveness

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

Hard to be Christ too, say Shug. But he manage. Remember that. Thou Shalt Not Kill, He said. And probably wanted to add on to that, Starting with me. He knowed the fools he was dealing with.

Until you do right by me, I say, everything you even dream about will fail.

Try not to hold her fears against her. At the end she understood, and believed. And forgave-whatever there was to forgive.

Every lick you hit me you will suffer twice

If you know your heart sorry, I say, that mean it not quite as spoilt as you think.

We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

I'm not the judge. You know, God didn't tell me to go around judging everybody.

Love overlooks a person's faults. That's not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.

You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.

When we don't forgive, we're not hurting the other person. We're not hurting the company that did us wrong. We're not hurting God. We're only hurting ourselves.