Forgiveness is local.
~ Matthew C. Harrison
There is no sin that Jesus cannot forgive.
~ Jim George
People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat. What they don’t understand is hatred can’t be isolated or turned off. It manifests in their health, choices and belief systems. Their values and religious beliefs make adjustments to justify their negative emotions. Not unlike malware infesting a hard drive, their spirit slowly becomes corrupted and they make choices that don’t make logical sense to others. Hatred left unaddressed will crash a person’s spirit. The only thing he or she can do is to reboot, by fixing him or herself, not others. This might require installing a firewall of boundaries or parental controls on their emotions. Regardless of the approach, we are all connected on this network of life and each of us is responsible for cleaning up our spiritual registry.
~ Shannon L. Alder
... forgiveness is a four letter word: Love.
~ Elizabeth Marx
Matthew held out his hands. “Pax,” he said, wheedlingly. “Let it be peace between us. You can pour the rest of the port on my head.”James’ mouth curved up into a smile. It was impossible to stay angry with Matthew. It was almost impossible to get angry at Matthew.
~ Cassandra Clare
A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place.
~ Bryant Mcgill
To live a wonderful life create more, buy less, hug more, scold less, give more, take less, forgive more, worry less and be grateful everyday for life.
I've never bowed to anyone, but will gladly live the rest of my life on my knees before you, if you'll be mine.
~ Joya Ryan
One of my greatest lessons of growth was to stop dwelling in the past and forgive myself and others from all the pain and hurt that was caused. When I finally let go and released, I was free with glee.
~ Jason Micheal Ratliff
To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.
I'm not sure if the question's rhetorical or if she thinks I have a clue to her metaphysical mystery. And I'm in no state to answer either way because I'm crying. I don't realize it till I taste the sale against my lips. I can't remember the last time I've cried but, once I accept the mortification of sniveling like a baby, the floodgates open and I'm sobbing now, in front of Mia. In front of the whole damn world.
~ Gayle Forman
Forgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don't forgive, you are the one who suffers.
Forgiveness is another way of saying, I need to mind my own business.
We all reek of weariness. A room full of the black-soul phenomenon. All of a sudden I don’t feel so alone in the recognition of my own mixed feelings mirrored in those faces. In those faces, I see that the seemingly repugnant behavior wasn’t so atrocious after all. Everything is forgiv- able. Everything we said and did and felt was magnified by the pres- ence of something we couldn’t control, and that fact definitely brought out the crazy. Each of us will carry a balance of regret and pride for the rest of our lives.
~ Angela Ricketts
Forgiveness is a virtue of beauty. You learn to see a person no longer defined by a past but one that has re-created itself anew.
Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing.
Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
When you reach out to those you need to forgive, it is you that will be touched and healed.
We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job
~ Laura Dave
I think forgiveness is a missing key to corporate success.
~ #Name?
We will find it increasingly difficult to believe that we've been set free from sin, from the law's power to condemn, and that God's smile is resting upon us if we continually give ourselves over to what we know we should avoid. Sin strips our faith, and it leads to ultimate deadness in our lives.
~ Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
And that you seek forgiveness of your Lord, and then turn to Him. He will provide for you a goodly provision until an appointed term. And He will grant His grace to every one possessed of merit. And if you turn away, then surely, I fear for you the punishment of a dreadful day.
~ Anonymous The Quran
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.
Forgiveness can help you to be sane.
If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can't set us free of it. He won't take those things by force.
~ Dawn M. Turner
Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.
~ Emily Thorne
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness. A full pardon from suspicion and accountability. It's the liberation of a stolen future. A future my father never lived to see. Absolution is a mercy the people who killed him will never know.
Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.
~ Maggie Cox
The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay only once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves.
~ Miguel Ruiz
All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.
~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
When I was a little girl my understanding of revenge was as simple as the Sunday school proverbs it hid behind. Neat little morality slogans like, do un to others and two wrongs don't make a right. But two wrongs can never make a right because; two wrongs can never equal each other. For the truly wronged real satisfaction can only be found in one of two places, absolute forgiveness or mortal vindication. This is not a story about forgiveness.
Remember that many negative people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them.
It is a difficult thing―if not impossible―to forgive oneself for foolish errors, not for trampling a life or goring another with sharp horns, but for being the fool who opened the gate and let the bull out, blind to potential consequences.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.
~ Chris Prentiss
Forgiveness doesn’t excuse their behaviour. It prevents their behaviour from destroying your heart.
~ Hemant Smarty
Forgiveness is one of the keys to moving forward because if you don't forgive, you are stuck in the past.
~ Terraine Francois
Do not wallow in your mistakes. Do not grovel and prostrate yourself in hopes of forgiveness. We all make mistakes. Apologize and move forward. Do not replay the event in your head. Do not continue to beat yourself up. Do not profusely explain, defend yourself, make excuses or blame. After you apologize, do no more explaining; never explain more than once — ever.
Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.
~ Shane Claiborne
