#forgiveness

"To err is human, to forgive, divine."

"People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!"

"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."

"(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue."

"Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are."

"We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past."

"Forgiveness is healing—everything is energy—thoughts create—we are all connected—what you resist persists—true love never dies—the soul’s immortality is the only true immortality—"

"Forgiveness is the most compassionate way toward the peace."

"Forgiveness is a process of accepting the past and welcoming the mysterious beauty of the future."

"Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself,clamoring for love."

"...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death."

"Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking."

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."

"Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love."

"Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury."

"I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me."

"The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed."

"When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you."

"Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past."

"Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith."