Quotes on forgiveness
Forgiveness does not mean the cancellation of all consequences of wrong doing. It means the refusal on God's part to let our guilty past affect His relationship with us.
Unknown, Author
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Meltzer, Bernard
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
Jr., H. Jackson Brown
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Author, Unknown
Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Assagioli, Roberto
Through His redemptive work we are 'justified from all things' (Acts 1338,39) and now rejoice in 'the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace' (Eph. 17), a position in Christ at God's right hand (Eph. 24-6), 'all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ' (Eph. 13) and 'the hope of the glory of God' (Rom. 52), to be fully realized when we are 'caught up together... to meet the Lord in the air' (1 Thess. 417). Then will be fulfilled the desire of God's loving heart 'That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus' (Eph. 27).
Stam, Cornelius
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
McLaughlin, Mignon
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Blake, William
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
Howe, Edgar Watson
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
Chase, Alexander
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
Harris, Sydney
He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
Boom, Corrie Ten
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Beecher, Henry Ward
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Author, Unknown
It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
Proverb, US Marine
The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.
Author, Unknown
Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen.
Zelazny, Roger
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
Luther, Martin
Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!
Author, Unknown