Top 1200 Grace And Forgiveness Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

A little extra forgiveness never hurts," said Matt, quoting one of Celia's favorite sayings.

Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

Grace cannot be confused with righteousness. Grace is receiving what we do not deserve; mercy is not receiving what we do deserve. Righteousness, on the other hand, includes what most of us would consider difficult matters, such as punishment, correction and judgment. It also includes what most of us would consider positive matters, such as the fruit of the Spirit.

Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace of the men who perceived that wheat must have water in order to grow, that stones laid in a curve will form an arch, that two and two make four, that love is not served by torture and life is not fed by destruction-only by the grace of those men did the rest of them learn to experience moments when they caught the spark of being human.

We will know our forgiveness is complete when we have a genuine desire for the welfare of the people who have wronged us.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.

If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; others think that following rules and tithing are morality. But without Christ, all moral beliefs ultimately boil down to the one sin which perpetually rails against the concept of grace: man's lawful, religious, and futile attempt at establishing his own righteousness.

True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd.

The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

To be absolved, especially if you commit a crime, there is no absolution, you must pay. But for forgiveness, with God or nature, you have to accept what you've done.

The themes in 'Violet' are universal: accepting yourself with all of your flaws, moving on, and the forgiveness and freedom that comes along with that.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

In the silence of the Cross, the uproar of weapons ceases and the language of reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue and peace is spoken.

The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.

From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.

That's not very attractive behavior, Bella." he said. " Forgiveness is divine. "Mind your own buisness.

Receiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which effects forgiveness and heals the sin-sick soul.

God won't permit temptation beyond your strength. It is true that temptations come to all, but God will give you the graces you need to withstand them, if you ask him to and if you are willing to cooperate with his grace...In God's presence, consider: Do I put up a fight when temptations beset me, or do I give up quickly and surrender myself to them without a struggle? Do I rely on God's grace to conquer temptations, or am I conquered by them?

I learned that I have purpose and my experiences no matter how horrible taught me heart, strength and forgiveness!

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.

Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.

Dear friends: faith and forgiveness is much more powerful than napalm could ever be.

New kinds of heroics need to be celebrated - like love, thoughtfulness, forgiveness, diplomacy - or we're not going to get there.

To my younger self, I would say unless you're literally in danger, ask forgiveness instead of asking permission.

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.

One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

If you are bitter you are like a dry leaf that you can squash and you can blow away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace not yet full to the brim, the oil shall not be stayed. He is a sun ever-shining; he is manna always falling round the camp; he is a rock in the desert, ever sending out streams of life from his smitten side; the rain of his grace is always dropping; the river of his bounty is ever-flowing, and the well-spring of his love is constantly overflowing.