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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn’t until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don’t have a problem going to sleep at night.
I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.
We cannot embrace God’s forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
God’s forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.