Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.
What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?
No evil is without its compensation. . . it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
Forgive yourself first. Let go of past hurts and direct your spirit to goodness and hope by having gratitude.
It matters to me. That's what you don't get. You can't understand. You can't understand what it's like knowing what I did. That whole time being Strigoi. . . It's like a dream now, but it's one I remember clearly. There can be no forgiveness for me. And what happened with you? I remember that most of all. Everything I did. Everything I wanted to do.
Easter is not complete without loving the one who made it possible-Judas. Forgiveness becomes possible when we transcend appearances and realize that those people who represent the Judases in our lives and those qualities within ourselves that seem to have betrayed us have been the divine process growing us into Christs. It’s all Love.
Forgiveness is essential as the ultimate detox
To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it.
We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
Of the affairs of love. . . my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted. This in no way means that I have done what was right; only what was possible for me. Sometimes I have done what I knew was wrong, and have rationalized. But rationalization is a form of desperation. It takes kindness to forgive oneself for one's life.
There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness