“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
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“Forgotten is forgiven.”
“Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.”
“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.”
“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.”
“Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.”
“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.”
“You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.”
“Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.”
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.”
“I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.”
“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.”
“Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.”
“I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are.”
“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.”
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”
“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”
“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.”
“How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.”
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.”
“Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.”
“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.”