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.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Although 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.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us – and to maintain. That’s because without humility, it’s not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

I’ve learned through my own relationship with God that He’s not expecting me to be perfect; He wants me to do my best to be in His will and take steps of faith as He leads me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my heart.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

It’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

I’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.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

First 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.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Naturally, 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.

There 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.

The Lord has often chosen to instruct His people in their times of trial.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

God always wants us to be growing.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation – which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased – only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

I’ve been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It’s like a daily routine.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

In my relationship with God, I’ve learned that if I follow a ‚formula‘ for how I spend my time with Him, then I’m just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful.