Quotes about Forgive
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.
- Terri Blackstock
Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing
- Albert Schweitzer
So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.
- Eugene Peterson
If you have anything against someone, forgive — only then will your heavenly Father be inclined to also wipe your slate clean of sins.
- Eugene Peterson
You and I are commanded—not urged, commanded—to keep no list of wrongs.
- Max Lucado
There is one thing God's love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.
- Billy Graham
Always remember . . . You have been given the power to forgive any offense, and in so doing, remove it from your awareness as far as the east is from the west. True vision is his gift, allowing you to see no blame; forgiveness is your truest purpose in this life. Seventy times seven, always, leaving the old self in a watery grave and rising to find no fault. That's grace, that's true baptism, and that's good news, wouldn't you say?
- Ted Dekker
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
- Stephen Covey
You'll have to forgive me. I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.
- Margaret Atwood
If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.
- Desmond Tutu
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself
- George Bernard Shaw