"(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."
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120 quotes about forgiveness
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forgiveness Quotes
"I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me."
"Lord help my poor soul."
"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."
"Forgiveness is a process of accepting the past and welcoming the mysterious beauty of the future."
"My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay."
"Love is my religion, kindness is my prayer, forgiveness is my temple, and peace is my abode."
"Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory."
"People in general would rather die than forgive. It's that hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,"a lot of people would go ahead and order their coffin."
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."
"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."
"Forgiveness takes away the burdens of past."
"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
"I'm desperately trying to have my heart accept the fact that I would be better off if I let go, I can't undo what's been done, nor am I able to forget, but together, me, my heart and my soul, we can work on what's ahead, if we team up we can write another story...Michael Hayssus, A Diary Of Hurts"
"I used to think how lucky she was to have me, but now I realize that’s backwards. A spirit of gratitude yields patience, love, and forgiveness."
"Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most."
"He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving."
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
"When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you."
"In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart."