Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.
Joyce MeyerAlthough God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.
Joyce MeyerThe Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
Winston ChurchillLet us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius CiceroTime heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
Blaise PascalI mean we all need a second chance sometimes.
Joel OsteenAlways forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar WildeNaturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.
Clint EastwoodI did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.
Mahatma GandhiIf something inconveniences my children too much or takes me away from them, I won’t do it.
Angelina JolieIf anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president’s.
John F. KennedyIf there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinFame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin DisraeliWhat is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.
VoltaireIt is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.
Joel OsteenLife is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. Scott FitzgeraldChildren begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar WildeMy mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.
Angelina JolieWe are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.
VoltaireDo you know something? The minute that blood sacrifice was accepted, Jesus was the first human being that was ever born again. Now that was real – it happened when he was in Hell.
Joyce MeyerThere is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.
Charles SpurgeonA man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma GandhiIf, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. MenckenPrison was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Kevin GatesIt’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya AngelouIf there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
Eckhart TolleYou can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.
Joel OsteenMartyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
Franz KafkaFirst of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.
Pope FrancisI am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.
Julius CaesarWhen we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘
Joyce MeyerWhen a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis BaconHallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
Khalil GibranJesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.
Joyce MeyerForgiveness is God’s command.
Martin LutherEvery man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Samuel JohnsonI’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
Jimmy CarterTo be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
Angelina JolieUnless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
EpictetusThe Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!
Pope FrancisIf one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
Robert FrostForgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert FrostKindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
William Makepeace ThackerayYou can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin FranklinThe quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
Alice WalkerA lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.
Joyce MeyerThat’s one of the biggest things. Never being home, always traveling, having different interests and focusing on different things, just the time aspect of going back home and seeing them, you don’t have that at all. It was a big sacrifice but, at the end of the day, it was worth it.
Lando NorrisRitual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Gilbert K. ChestertonForgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert FrostSociety can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund BurkeCertainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.
Francis BaconTo be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.
Hermann HesseNo man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
Theodore RooseveltIt is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.
Albert CamusLet not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!
Charles SpurgeonHe who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.
Charles SpurgeonWe are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert HubbardIn the world today many people rightfully feel entitled to have success and the good things in life, but they usually understand it will require sacrifice and hard work.
Robert GreenePeople, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Audrey Hepburn