Forgiveness Quotes

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Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter. — Norman Vincent Peale
The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for… — John R. Rice
We can co-create this change. Spreading the word, learning to treat others with love, acceptance and forgiveness, and bravely stepping up to do our part...… — David Wilcock
Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me. — Elvis Costello
Now, the first preachers of the Christ evangel preached Christ. They did not, in the first place, preach salvation or sanctification or forgiveness, or judgment… — Theodore Austin-Sparks
Forgiveness is its own reward. — Rickson Gracie
Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. — Joan Lunden
Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell… — Marianne Williamson
Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you — Ed Roland
We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love. — Philip Yancey
Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is a powerful expression of the love within our soul. — Anthony Douglas
The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like… — Hiroko Sakai
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by opening oneself to… — Pope Benedict XVI
As readers, we are seldom interested in the fine sentiments of a lesson learnt; we seldom care about the good manners of morals. Repentance puts… — Alberto Manguel
Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the conditions that brought… — Jack Kornfield
A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as… — Criss Jami
A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication… — Criss Jami
To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter,… — C.S. Lewis
Le coeur d'une me' re est un ab|"me au fond duquel se trouve toujours un pardon. A mother'sheart isanabyss atthebottomof whichthere is always forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
Forgiveness frees the forgiver. — Lance Morrow
The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws… — Bill Vaughan
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. — Robert Fripp
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. — Robert Frost
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. — Robert Frost

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