Quotes on Forgiven

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to see in order to keep going. In those waters, all disappointments are forgotten, our mistakes forgiven. Gazing into them, we see a strong father. A loving mother. Warm rooms where we are sheltered, adored, wanted. And the uncertainty of our futures is nothing more than the fog of breath on a windowpane.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christian faith is the grace of God. If there's one word I would grab from all of that, it's forgiveness - that you can be forgiven. I can be forgiven, and it is of the grace of God. But once you understand that, I think the ramifications are worldwide.

There are some facts that will never change. One fact is that you are forgiven. If you are in Christ, when he sees you, your sins are covered-he doesn't see them. He sees you better than you see yourself.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.

What a mistake those who do not hope make! Judas made a huge blunder the day in which he sold Christ for 30 denarii, but he made an even bigger one when he thought that his sin was too great to be forgiven. No sin is too big: any wretchedness, however great, can always be enclosed in infinite mercy.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.