forgiveness

On Jesus' rock, my life abounds; all other floors are slippery grounds. His love for me, is mercy band; any other love is sinking sand.

Forgiveness in no way requires you to trust the one you forgive. It doesn't mean the relationship must be restored. p. 61

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I know he's a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person, you have to forgive him sometimes.

I know that in the end, God will forgive me. He will forgive your father, me, and you too. I hope you can do the same. Forgive your father if you can. Forgive me if you wish. But most important, forgive yourself.

Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.

Go to church to learn about forgiveness; come back to become a forgiver! Go to church and learn about kindness; come back to become a kind person! If things go like that, you will be a true image of Christ after going to church only 10 times on 10 Sundays!

Here__ a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don__ even like _ people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren__ even alive anymore _ to control your life? How long?

There__ a correlation between the number of digits on a man__ bank balance, and, the number of things that his woman is willing to forgive him for.

These two poles, the unconditional and the conditional, are absolutely heterogeneous, and must remain irreducible to one another. They are nonetheless indissociable: if one wants, and it is necessary, forgiveness to become effective, concrete, historic; if one wants it to arrive, to happen by changing things, it is necessary that this purity engage itself in a series of conditions of all kinds (psychosociological, political, etc.). It is between these two poles, irreconcilable but indissociable, that decisions and responsibilities are to be taken. Yet despite all the confusions which reduce forgiveness to amnesty or to amnesia, to acquittal or prescription, to the work of mourning or some political therapy of reconciliation, in short to some historical ecology, it must never be forgotten, nevertheless, that all of that refers to a certain idea of pure and unconditional forgiveness, without which this discourse would not have the least meaning. What complicates the question of __eaning_ is again what I suggested a moment ago: pure and unconditional forgiveness, in order to have its own meaning, must have no __eaning_, no finality, even no intelligibility. It is a madness of the impossible.

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'!

Then Caspian caught up a battle-axe and rushed upon the Lord Drinian to kill him, and Drinian stood still as a stock for the death blow. But when the axe was raised, Caspian suddenly threw it away and cried out, "I have lost my queen and my son: shall I lose my friend also?" And he fell upon the Lord Drinian's neck and embraced him and both wept, as their friendship was not broken.

The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person can make me denounce my past. It made me who I am today, and the choices I make from this moment on are what will ultimately define me.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do--we do it all the time.