Forgiven Quotes - Page 2

A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls

When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.

The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.

Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.

God has forgiven and still forgives us when we repent from our sins, an indication that we are not called to sin, but to live in accordance with His will.

As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?

One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.

By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU.

If someone can't forgive, it's because he does not love

No one can claim perfection, that's why everyone needs a second chance ad infinitum

Locking ourselves in the situation where we wish for sympathy and want to be looked at as the aggrieved party normally makes us powerless.

Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.

In an unforgiving world, chaos rules.

Forgiveness brings us closer to those who have hurt us and helps them to experience the forgiveness and love of Jesus through us who forgives them.

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done. When you get to that time that is now, make a full and total forgiveness of your entire life and smile at the bouquet in your hands because it truly is beautiful.

You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.

In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.

When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.

This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.

All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.

Forgiveness does not change the past, that’s for sure, but it does change the future.

Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.

Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!

I was taught that you can’t expect to be forgiven when you continuously commit the same sin over and over again.

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done.

To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past.

Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.

Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.

The heart is where the journey of forgiveness begins.

The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.

If he had learned anything from his father’s fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You could be taken from a stinking ger and forced through the ranks until a thousand men followed your orders as if they came from the khan himself. Blood and talent. The nation was built on both.

Christians are free to serve and obey God since they are loved, justified, redeemed, reconciled, forgiven, saved, and sustained to the end!

The world is full of victims; don’t add to the growing culture of “I’ve a story to tell”, well not unless it’s a story to help others overcome situations or as a warning.

You’re sorry? I damn near drank myself to death, I could barely get out of bed, I shattered my phone into a million pieces on New Year’s Eve to keep from calling you … and you’re sorry?”I bit my lip and nodded, ashamed. I had no idea what he’d been through, and hearing his say the words made sharp pain twist inside my chest. “I’m so … so sorry.”“You’re forgiven,” he said with a grin. “Don’t ever do it again.”“I won’t. I promise.”He flashed his dimple and shook his head. “I fucking love you.

Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on.

The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.

Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.

To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this, I see God as the least bigoted of all in existence: While men always, in their hearts, delight in vengeance for being wronged, God is the only Being who wants to free you from the penalty of His own laws.

Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.