When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.
I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart. ' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.
The thing that makes stories memorable is the experiences they impart onto the readership and the emotions that they make those readers feel. The audience will forgive an incredible amount if you deliver them a powerful emotional experience - and, conversely, if your story is emotionally false, no amount of pyrotechnics will save it.
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.
The Bible is clear about two principles: (1) We always need to forgive, but (2) we don’t always achieve reconciliation. Forgiveness is something that we do in our hearts; we release someone from a debt that they owe us. We write off the person’s debt, and she no longer owes us. We no longer condemn her. She is clean. Only one party is needed for forgiveness: me. The person who owes me a debt does not have to ask my forgiveness. It is a work of grace in my heart.
I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.
Think about a dog’s ability to forgive. This to me is love.
There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.
The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.
I see my parents as tiny children who need love. I have compassion for my parents’ childhoods. I now know that I chose them because they were perfect for what I had to learn. I forgive them and set them free, and I set myself free.
While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.
I believe in discipline. You can forgive incompetence. You can forgive lack of ability. But one thing you cannot ever forgive is lack of discipline.
If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.
If I repent now will God forgive me? No, but if God forgives you, you will repent.
If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
Listen to me. " He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever.
The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.