Quotes about Forgiveness

If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

Did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.

No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.

I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death . . . the gift of righteousness and eternal life.

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Trouble me not, friar, I have confessed my sins to God, and obtained absolution through the merits of Jesus Christ.

In the preaching of the kingdom, law and gospel come together. The coming of the kingdom is the coming of a King to enforce his law on a disobedient world, that is, to enforce his covenant against covenant-breakers. But the King who comes is full of love and forgiveness. So his coming is good news, gospel, not only because he judges the wicked, but because he brings redemption, forgiveness, and reward to his redeemed people.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.