Quotes about forgiveness
forgiveness independent thinking
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. Emma Goldman
forgiveness sea forgiving
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. Seamus Heaney
forgiveness revenge believe
So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells. Seamus Heaney
forgiveness challenges growth
When you tame and domesticate the divine it loses its danger and it's power to forgive you, make you happy, or its power to challenge you, and call you towards new growth. John O'Donohue
forgiveness heart forgiving
A heart filled with anger has no room for love. Joan Lunden
forgiveness hurt laughter
Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. Joan Lunden
forgiveness hurt laughter
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. Joan Lunden
forgiveness mistake lakes
In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes. Garrison Keillor
forgiveness children degrees
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness. John Bunyan
forgiveness choices
Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option. Joel Osteen
forgiveness wall heart
We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation. Joel Osteen
forgiveness letting-go hurt
You must forgive the people who hurt you so you can get out of prison. You'll never be free until you do. Let go of hose wrongs they've done to you. Get that bitterness out of your life. That's the only way you're going to truly be free. You will be amazed at what can happen in your life when you release all that poison. Joel Osteen
forgiveness good-life mistake
If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store. Joel Osteen
forgiveness letting-go hurt
If you feel "stuck" today, you may want to examine what you're holding on to. Be willing let go of past disappointments by choosing forgiveness. Who hurt you? Who wronged you? Release it to God. Do you need to forgive yourself? Do you need to receive God's forgiveness? Let go of the past so you can overcome disappointments and experience the bright future God has in store for you! There is freedom in forgetting! Joel Osteen
forgiveness hurt forgiving
When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves. Joel Osteen
forgiveness hurt people
FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy...Double The Victory. Joel Osteen
forgiveness block heart
Forgiveness doesn't mean that what that person did was right or that you even have to get back into a relationship with that person. Forgiveness simply releases the debt they owe you so that God can release the debt you owe Him. Ask the Lord to search your heart and show you if there is any unforgiveness blocking His blessing in your life. Ask Him to show you more about this gift of forgiveness so that you can walk in the freedom and victory He has for you today. Joel Osteen
forgiveness grace four
Every twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness. Joel Osteen
forgiveness two issues
You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go. Joel Osteen
forgiveness moving flying
Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward. Joel Osteen
forgiveness letting-go morning
Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive your spouse for what they said. At the start of the day, let go of the disappointments, the set backs from yesterday. Start every morning fresh and new. God did not create you to carry around all that baggage. Let it go and move forward in the life of blessing He has in store for you! Joel Osteen
forgiveness forgiving prison
Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in. Louise Hay
forgiveness healing practice
We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice. Louise Hay
forgiveness loving-life evening
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come. Madeleine L'Engle
forgiveness people forgiving
It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it? Lucy Maud Montgomery
forgiveness mistake heart
A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself. Linda Sue Park
forgiveness forgiving position
One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything. Leo Tolstoy
forgiveness forgive-and-forget forgiving
Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace. Leo Tolstoy
forgiveness acceptance love-is
I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community. Lady Gaga
forgiveness believe heart
I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it. Forgiveness has to come from inside as a desire of the heart. Wanting to is the steam that pushes the forgiving engine. Lewis B. Smedes
forgiveness hurt children
Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were the ones people gave to my children. Wrong my kids, you wrong me. And my hurt qualifies me to forgive you. But only for the pain you caused me when you wounded them. My children alone are qualified to forgive you for what you did to them. Lewis B. Smedes
forgiveness hurt memories
If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word. Lewis B. Smedes
forgiveness eye world
Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness. Lewis B. Smedes