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Powerful Quotes on Forgiveness
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Earth is Forgiveness School. You might
Earth is Forgiveness School. You might as well start at the dinner table. That way, you can do this work in comfortable pants.
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At the heart of God is the desire to give and to forgive… Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God’s great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that b... -
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We confess to the Lord, despite the fact that we know he will forgive us, for he did his forgiving back when Caesar ruled and executioners had hammers that were crass and killing cruel. We confess not... -
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When you turn to Christ, you don't have a repentance apart from Christ, you just have Christ. Therefore, don't seek repentance or faith as such but seek Christ. When you have Christ you have r... -
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Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. -
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He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. -
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As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace. -
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The soul’s infinite capacity to desire is the mirror image of God’s infinite capacity to give. . . . The unlimited need of the soul matches the unlimited grace of God. -
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Only one petition in the Lord’s Prayer has any condition attached to it; it is the petition for forgiveness. -
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He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself: for every man has need to be forgiven. -
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The man who is truly forgiven and knows it, is a man who forgives. -
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The Church should be the society of the forgiven and the forgiving. -
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The genius of the biblical revelation is that it refuses to deny the dark side of things, but forgives failure and integrates falling to achieve its only promised wholeness. -
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Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal. -
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Every day God patiently bears with us, and every day we are tempted to become impatient with our friends, neighbors, and loved ones. And our faults and failures before God are so much more serious tha... -
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Dieu pardonerra; c’est son métier; God forgives you — it’s his thing. *for contrast -
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Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you. -
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We know mistakes were made. -
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He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. -
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I asked a few people if they’d ever forgiven anyone and what it felt like. They gave me answers so pious I knew they’d never done it…Forgiveness is a brutal mathematical transaction done with fully en... -
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Earth is Forgiveness School. You might as well start at the dinner table. That way, you can do this work in comfortable pants. -
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Forgiveness is surrendering my right to hurt you for hurting me. -
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Forgiveness is to man the plainest of duties; to God it is the profoundest of problems. -
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Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven. -
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. -
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Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. -
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"Here is your brother”, he [Aslan] said, "and-there is no need to talk to him about what is past.” -
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To forgive oneself”? No, that doesn’t work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive. -
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Forgiveness is God's greatest gift because it meets our greatest need. -
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Well, from the paradigm that Jesus provided, as he was being crucified, he said, “Father, forgive them.” It wasn’t as if he was talking about something that might happen. He was actually experiencing ... -
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I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray; no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed in intercession ...
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