Forgiveness Quotes - Page 19

Sure we all need money but what do you really focus on? It is a matter of the heart. If your thoughts are on material and worldly things, no good fruits can come out of it.Seek the kingdom of God first and the other things shall be added unto you not vice versa.

Long only for what you have.

. . . we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this book, it's that we're all damaged. The tragedy is letting it define you.

With time and perspective we recognize that such problems in life do come for a purpose, if only to allow the one who faces such despair to be convinced that he really does need divine strength beyond himself, that she really does need the offer of heaven’s hand. Those who feel no need for mercy usually never seek it and almost never bestow it. Those who have never had a heartache or a weakness or felt lonely or forsaken never have had to cry unto heaven for relief of such personal pain. Surely it is better to find the goodness of God and the grace of Christ, even at the price of despair, than to risk living our lives in a moral or material complacency that has never felt any need for faith or forgiveness, any need for redemption or relief.

What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me. Don't prettify me though, whatever else you do: I have no wish to be a decorated skull. But I leave myself in your hands. What choice do I have? By the time you read this last page, that- if anywhere- is the only place I will be.

Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

When we are preoccupied with wealth and material acquisitions, it chokes God's word in us and makes it unfruitful. But if we follow His plan of being prosperous you will enjoy the blessings of this life.

Sometimes the Lord must bring the bodylow before Raising the Spirit ever higher.

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish to rage and be furious is brutish and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious is manly and divine.

Whenever relationships can't be restored, it's because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God.

Forgiveness is always hard, but we must always try to leave room for reasonable attempts at reconciliation to occur.

God‘s love for mankind; wide, long, high and deep.

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job

…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

Have you ever made a decision that sounded good at the time but then led to unanticipated results?

With resentment, hearts burn in the fire of hatred. With forgiveness, hearts dance with pure joy.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated not a life wish for anything else.

Everything I am longing for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of my abundance - will surely be mine... when I am prepared to receive ALL with an open and Thankful heart.

The sinner is saved by the Saviour.

Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.

We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!

The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself even a little is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable.

Forgiveness is knowing and remembering what happened, but choosing to move beyond it.

Forgiveness is not turning the other cheek. Forgiveness is not running away. Forgiveness does not mean that you condone what the person has done, nor does it mean that you invite them to do it again. It doesn't mean that you forget the offense, nor does it mean that by forgiving you tacitly invite bad things to happen again. It doesn't mean that you won't defend yourself.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

I know now that patriotism is not enough I must have no hatred and bitterness toward anyone.

The gift of salvation set me free from all my sins.

Embrace YOU...Believe in yourself, in this very moment...forgive yourself for all mistakes and 'bad' decisions you may have made in the past. Do not allow others opinions or judgements of who you were yesterday or decades ago define who you are today. Each and every day opens new doors for miracles of healing to occur in our lives. Embrace these miracles, big or small, even those you may presently be unaware of. Live in this moment, for this is all we have. Give thanks to your Higher Power for all that you are, for the very breath that allows life, love, and abundance to flow to you and through you forever more. Live in the Light of All That IS.

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them becausethey need it--because we need it. I'm sure you felt much better after forgiving your son.

If the will remains in protest it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future

A sinner’s humanity will cause him to fall from grace again and again, but his human pride, ego, or feeling of unworthiness should not prevent him from seeking God’s forgiveness again and again.

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

Two powerful factors which creates difference between destroying your relationship and deepening it are EGO and Attitude

Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than that night on the ferry. This was a kiss of reunion. Of forgiveness. Of coming home.

The fall of the nation, there is no;Faithfulness, Kindness and Knowledge of God in your sacred land.

You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.

The shift from thinking that I must feel forgiveness to the practice of repetitive giving forgiveness has helped me in my healing journey.

Every dog has its day but it's not every dog that knows when he's having it.

To enjoy a peaceful & Beautiful Life We should open our 'EYE' and Close our 'I

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

Forgiveness is not a gift you give someone else, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself.

Lord save the suffering souls.

Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!

ALL that man has touched, will be used... For both Good and evil. Such is the way of the world.

Trust unites, fear divides, mercy heals, and love conquers.

...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...

My brother asked the birds to forgive him: that sounds senseless, but it is right; for all is like an ocean, all is flowing and blending; a touch in one place sets up movement at the other end of the earth. It may be senseless to beg forgiveness of the birds, but birds would be happier at your side –a little happier, anyway– and children and all animals, if you yourself were nobler than you are now. It’s all like an ocean, I tell you. Then you would pray to the birds too, consumed by an all-embracing love in a sort of transport, and pray that they too will forgive you your sin.

Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it

Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them.

If you focus on bitterness, you destroy your life.

Forgiveness is…an archaic perception of personal debt and guilt designed by the ego to trap us unendingly within itself.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

How shall I love the sin yet keep the sense And love the offender yet detest the offence?

Love is an active action.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.