All Quotes By Tag: Forgiveness
“The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we are wrapped up in our own little peeves that we begin to displace His benevolence with malevolence.”
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“Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing”
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“I am planting a tree in this bomb crater to remind us that in the midst of death, there is life… and hope.”
“We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.”
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“Forgiveness is the four leafed clover of life.”
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“Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.”
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“Your mind will dance with joy and peace when you stop complaining and start forgiving.”
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“…those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.”
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“Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God’s forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.”
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“Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.”
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“Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.”
“Sometimes people need to know they could be forgiven to have the strength to change.”
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“I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There’s no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man’s debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume his actual crimes as if they were your own; for one thing you did not commit them and might have died rather than do so; for another this impossible action would rob him of individual responsibility. So the whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out the ethical principles for ourselves.”
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“Well, we are human. Indeed, we make mistakes. We’ll make so many of them that we’ll lose count. Stop keeping count. Stop keeping score. Stop holding grudges.”
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“Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.”
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