Forgiveness Quotes

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Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust… — Lewis B. Smedes
God invented forgiving as a remedy for a past that not even he could change and not even he could forget. His way of forgiving… — Lewis B. Smedes
How many times should you forgive your household bruiser? You should not even think about forgiving him. Not yet. Not as long as he has… — Lewis B. Smedes
Forgive a wife-slammer if you can. But you don't have to live with him. Forgive a husband who is abusing your children if you can.… — Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged deep. And we… — Lewis B. Smedes
Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your… — Lewis B. Smedes
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness. — John Bunyan
Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness. — Dave Hunt
If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to feel… — Sydney Banks
To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love. — Walter Lippmann
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… — Isaac Watts
The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some… — Eugene Kennedy
You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. — M. L. Stedman
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons. — Joseph Jacobs
Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion. — Joseph Conrad
Who understands much, forgives much. — Madame de Stael
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't. — Elbert Hubbard
Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance. — Henry George Bohn
Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind — Dalai Lama
NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
When we make mistakes, we can use the process of NVC mourning and self-forgiveness to show us where we can grow instead of getting caught… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and… — Charles Spurgeon
If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we… — J C Ryle
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart. — Jack Kornfield
It is hard to imagine a world without forgiveness. Without forgiveness life would be unbearable. Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the… — Jack Kornfield

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