Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.
People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.
I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.
I’ve been enjoying a couple of post-Oscar burgers. So I didn’t fit into a lot of the vintage stuff. I wanted to wear something that was a little bit more forgiving.
You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
I figured out that I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. Like you live with a scar or a limp or whatever. You always know it's there. It reminds you never to let yourself do anything so stupid and horrible and wrong again. I step out of my rut, step again, and keep stepping. (277)
The great misconception in our day is this: that God isn´t concerned to protect His own integrity. He´s a kind of wishy-washy deity, who just waves a wand of forgiveness over everybody. No. For God to forgive you is a very costly matter.
Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.
So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon.
We may not be worthy to be forgiven, but He is worthy to forgive us.
Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is. . . just forgive them and let it go.
Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.
Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.
Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?
The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
As a writer, I am not goddess of the universes I create. I am at most a stage manager of the plentiful gifts which tumble out of the horn of plenty, which is to say there is a source so sweet and forgiving and generous that I pray every day to let that source be my guide.
We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.
We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.