Forgiveness is the Most Powerful thing you can Do for Yourself on the Spiritual Path.
Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.
The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.
Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.
Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.
I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.
Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.
And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.
Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.
Of the affairs of love. . . my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.
This is something I think that blues music, or folk music, and all those particular genres that have a perspective about life deal with - where the difficulties of life are seen as something that are very natural and nothing to be embarrassed about, and something that we all go through; something that's part of our share of humanity. And it accepts those difficulties and pain as such. I think there's a wonderful forgiveness that can come over you, if you have that perspective on it.
To forgive is human, to forget divine.
There is power in forgiveness.
What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen.