If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.
Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart.
I dinna know what's a sadist. And if I forgive you for this afternoon, I reckon you'll forgive me, too, as soon as ye can sit down again. " "As for my pleasure. . . " His lip twitched. "I said I would have to punish you. I did not say I wasna going to enjoy it. " He crooked a finger at me. "Come here.
I am ready to be healed. I am willing to forgive. All is well.
We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.
. . . the Lord Jesus said, 'To those who are in bonds, Come out, and to those who are in prison, Go forth' (Isa. 49:9); so your sins are forgiven. All, then, are forgiven, nor is there any one whom He has not loosed. For thus it is written, that He has forgiven 'all transgressions, doing away with the handwriting of the ordinance that was against us' (Col. 2:13-14). Why, then, do we hold the bonds of others, while we enjoy our own remission? He, who forgave all, required of all that what every one remembers to have been forgiven to himself, he also should forgive others.
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.
Jesus didn't just die to forgive you, He rose to live through you.
it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.
I hated my father all my life but in his final days I forgave him for all the suffering he caused us. As you grow older, marry, and have children of you own, you learn and forget. I do not forget easily, but I do forgive.
What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of? Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself.
Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.
I've learned. . . . That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you. . . More
And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.
You must learn to forgive yourself as easily as you forgive others. And then take a further step and use all that energy that you used in condemning yourself for improving yourself. After that I really started to get somewhere - because there's only one person you can change and that's yourself. After you have changed yourself, you might be able to inspire others to look for change.
It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.
Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.