Quotes about Forgiveness

It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

To not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.

I hope you can someday forgive me.' 'I forgive you now.

Holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary

We always assume that there's tomorrow to make things right. Maybe that's why the Bible says to not procrastinate your day of repentance.

takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

It's been written that, He who does not forgive is guilty of the greater sin. That verse had always confounded me. I had considered it unjust at best and cruel at worst. But these words were not meant as condemnation—rather as illumination of an eternal truth: that to not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.

First, most people think the word prodigal means wayward or lost. It doesn't. Prodigal means lavish or wastefully extravagant. It's like spending money recklessly. It also means to give on a lavish scale. So, in the case of the prodigal son story, you could argue that the father was prodigal since he gave his love freely, on a lavish scale. You might even say recklessly.