Top 1200 Grace And Forgiveness Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go.

Families will always have their trials; be living examples of love, forgiveness, and care

When you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly.

You're only human. Let's break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.

What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.

I think forgiveness is overrated, personally, because some things people do are unforgivable.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.

In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.

Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world.

You can't go to church without praying ten or fifteen times for God to have mercy on you. You can't sing "Amazing Grace" without reminding yourself that the reason God's grace is amazing is it saves a wretch like you. This self-denigration stuff - Jesus died for my sins - is nothing but a guilt message. That's the thing we've got to get out from under. That's not Christianity. That's sort of fourth-century Christianity that got turned into doctrines and dogmas that we've never been able to escape.

Love is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is not a resolute abandoning of one's own good with a view solely to the good of the other person. It is first a deeply satisfying experience of the fullness of God's grace, and then a doubly satisfying experience of sharing that grace with another person.

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to live in a careless neglect of God, and of their own souls, and salvation. Most certainly, altho' we cannot say, That if men improve their natural abilities as they ought to do, that grace will infallibly follow, yet there will not one sinner in all the reprobate world, stand forth at the day of judgment, and say, Lord, thou knowest I did all that possibly I could do, for the obtaining grace, and for all that, thou didst withhold it from me.

Reconciliation and forgiveness can actually help all of us move on in a healthier, happier way.

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Forgiveness gives you a chance to be fulfilled rather than be eaten up with anger.

Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.

I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a singleness of eye, a purity of intention, a central core to my life that will enable me to carry out these obligations and activities as well as I can. I want, in fact - to borrow from the language of the saints - to live 'in grace' as much of the time as possible. I am not using this term in a strictly theological sense. By grace I mean an inner harmony, essentially spiritual, which can be translated into outward harmony.

John declared that "Christ received not of the fulness at the first," but that he "continued from grace to grace until he received a fulnesss and thus he was called the Son of God, because he received not of the fulness at the first." Thus is it with us all. We must work out our salvation and exaltation by coming to this earth. Man must be born into mortality and live and die that he may continue in his progress toward eternal life and exaltation.

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.

What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.

The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.

What in your life allows you to give up to other people, and allows you to forgive others and accept forgiveness.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

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

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.