Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. “Why do you try to make friends of them?” asked an associate. “You should try to destroy them.” “Am I not destroying my enemies,” Lincoln gently replied, “when I make them my friends?”
Don’t go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.
God forgives us and remembers our sin no more; therefore, stop remembering what God has forgotten.
If today were your last, would you do what you’re doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more? Then do so! Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there’s no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.
There is no future without forgiveness.
Forgiving someone isn’t just about doing good to another. It’s also about healing a scar in your own heart.
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.
Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.
The only way to peace is forgiveness.
Forgive, but don’t forget.
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.
The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.
Nothing in the Christian life is more important than forgiveness-our forgiveness of others and God’s forgiveness of us.
Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.