Forgiveness Quotes - Page 28

With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

There is strength in forgiveness.

If you can’t love yourself, how can you love others? If you can’t forgive yourself, how can you forgive others?

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

For one mother joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.

Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.

The things that may change our world to make better; smiling, helping, respecting, loving & forgiving.

People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!

If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty

Forgiveness is the fruit of fellowship.

Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.

Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word ‘give’ is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein.

Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.

On Jesus' rock, my life abounds; all other floors are slippery grounds. His love for me, is mercy band; any other love is sinking sand.

Dear God, please take the stains off my heart. If there’s even an ounce of pain I feel that someone caused me in the past, I ask that you wash it away. Give me strength, show me forgiveness is the healthiest option for me, and set me free. I pray you give me peace today and every day, allowing me to totally leave my past behind. In Jesus’s name, I pray, amen.

The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.

I feel so sorry that many Christians live in bondage even though Jesus has signed their release form with His own blood.

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

Hate is not a good counselor.

And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven.

Living in love, gratitude and forgiveness, is peaceful and spiritually rejuvenating. Living under the emotional constraints of anger and resentment is draining and toxic to heart and soul. It can be difficult to let go of past hurts, but it can also be freeing and uplifting. More and more, i choose to live in love, gratitude and forgiveness.

To hold the power of affection and maintain the roots of love, you must stay trusted.

A strong person forgives even the most unforgivable.

To be content with little is difficult to be content with much impossible.

Trying to get stuff straight right at the end when you never cared all through your life. Trying to get into heaven on the affirmative action plan.

I was thinking about changing into a different sort of person than the one I am. I do think about that. I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same. What has Cam ever done that actually hurt me, anyway, as Haro once said. And how am I better than he is after the way i felt the night Mother lived instead of died? I made a promise to myself i would try.I went over there one day taking them a bakery cake - which Cam eats now as happily as anyone else - and I heard their voices out in the yard - now it’s summer, they love to sit in the sun - Mother saying to some visitor, “Oh, yes I was, I was all set to take off into the wild blue yonder, and Cam here, this idiot, came and danced outside my door with a bunch of his hippie friends - ‘t‘My God, woman,’ roared Cam, but you could tell he didn’t care now, ‘members of an ancient holy discipline.”tI had a strange feeling, like I was walking n coals and trying a spell so I wouldn’t get burnt.tForgiveness in families is a mystery to me, how it comes or how it lasts

The world truly is my oyster, the difficulty is... I haven't discovered the ALL of the tools to shuck it yet.

You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4

Baggage is a funny thing. The more you have of it, the heavier it becomes and the longer it takes to reach your destination in life.

In order to stay happy, You must learn from your wins and fails and accept all things that come your way as they are.

Grace, on the other hand, means that God is pursuing you. That God forgives you. That God sanctifies you. When you are apathetic toward God, He is never apathetic toward you. When you don’t desire to pray and talk to God, He never grows tired of talking to you. When you forget to read your Bible and listen to God, He is always listening to you. Grace means that your spirituality is upheld by God’s stubborn enjoyment of you.Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us (p. 76).

Delight in your weaknesses because they make you strongerDelight in your imperfections because they make you perfectRejoice in your sorrow because it adds to your joyRelish at your pain because it makes your relief worth whileBe glad when you are sad because it accentuates your happinessBe happy when they put you down because it makes you fight that much harderAccept when you are corrected because it adds to your wisdomLaugh at your tearsConfront your nightmaresForgive your enemiesLove them all

Forgiveness, she was only required to accept the seed of healing, and to let it grow on its own time.

Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing.

Almost alone among successful politicians, he took slights personally.

The love of God encompasses us.

Live a life abundant in love and rich in spirit, these are the seeds of a fulfilling existence. Be the safe harbor you seek in the world. Follow your dreams, not your fear. Go into the New Year with an open mind and hopeful heart. Don't let the chains of unforgiveness weigh you down. Life is too short to live in a prison of past hurts. The futures is yours for the taking and creating. Life is bittersweet, when we can let darkness and light co-exist as illumination, we can live in true happiness. When we live life at its best, it is a symphony of feelings, of high and low notes, of tragedy and comedy, love and loss, magic and the sublime. It can be quite a spectacular journey when we fully embrace and accept it.

Unforgiveness,splinter in your breastbone, lives there lodged like a small tree.Withers in winter, looms in spring. Its fruit is sweet on first bite, then turns into the taste of your own flesh.

I think forgiveness is a missing key to corporate success.

Forgiveness is a process that we have to learn to act upon daily. Anger is weakened by forgiveness. When you forgive, you free yourself from carrying around the torment that the offense has caused you.

Thank You is a great thing to share... If a situation brings Gratitude to mind, then a heart felt Thank You is a great way to express it.

Positive emotions like compassion and loving kindness engender in us a deep sense of peace and serenity, and benefits others as well.

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.

But if you forgive someone for something they did to you, it doesn’t mean you agree with what they did or believe it was right. Forgiving that person means you have chosen not to dwell on the matter anymore; you have moved on with your life.

Just remember, someday you might be asking for forgiveness. And if that day were to come, you would want it, wouldn’t you?

When you forgive yourself, you free yourself from memories which aren’t serving you anymore.

True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways.

No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change.Psalm 139:23 - 24

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

Love’s voice reverberates with forgiveness across the room of our heart

Due to the need to co-exist with these inhuman and inconsiderate people, we will obviously be disturbed by their acts; something which if we look at closely actually means that we too could be affecting some other people negatively every once in a while.

My gratitude for good writing is unbounded I'm grateful for it the way I'm grateful for the ocean.

You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!

Even if yesterday existed, today is just real, not a fantasy like the past.

In the end all the puzzles of your life will be solved ,until then... laugh at the scepticism, live for the moment and remember everything happens for a reason.