Forgiving Quotes - Page 26

• Each of us is under a divinely spoken obligation to reach out with pardon and mercy and to forgive one another. There is a great need for this Christlike attribute in our families, in our marriages, in our wards and stakes, in our communities, and in our nations.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Community, Needs, Mercy

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• Above all, I was shown that love is supreme. I saw that truly without love we are nothing. We are here to help each other, to care for each other, to understand, forgive, and serve one another. We are here to have love for every person born on earth.

  Betty Eadie

  Love Is, Earth, Care

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• The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Stress, Secret, Free Yourself

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• People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

  James Whistler

  People, Talent

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• Forgive everybody everything everyday.

  John Foster Dulles

  Everyday

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• The longer we are members of the Church, the better we understand the gospel, the more we will be inclined to be peacefully minded. The more diligently we follow the teaching of Christ, the slower we will be to be angry with each other and the quicker we will be to forgive each other.

  Theodore M. Burton

  Teaching, Church, Christ

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• We mirror God's mercy to us when we forgive another.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  Mirrors, Mercy

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• When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  Hurt, Knees, Bears

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• Sometimes the best way to forgive is to let the other person forget.

  Robert Breault

  Way, Sometimes, Forget

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• Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be forgiven. And then let us linger there to learn how to forgive.

  Charles Spurgeon

  May, Calvary, Forgiven

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “Spurgeon's Sermon Notes”, p.213, Kregel Publications

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• When God forgives us for hitting Him with a club we should manage to put up with the pin pricks we get from our fellows.

  Helmut Thielicke

  Hitting, Clubs, Should

  Helmut Thielicke, John W. Doberstein (2016). “The Prayer that Spans the World: Sermons on the Lord’s Prayer”, p.71

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• Take heed all of you who have at heart mankind's future! Take heed men and women of good will! May the temptation to seek revenge give way to the courage to forgive; may the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death; may trust once more give breath to the lives of peoples.

  Pope John Paul II

  Life And Love, Revenge, Heart

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• I need to depend on Someone who is bigger, stronger and wiser than I am. I don't do it on my own. God is my strength. He gave me a good body and some talent and the freedom to develop it. He helps me when things go wrong. He forgives me when I fall on my face. He lights the way.

  Hank Aaron

  Fall, Light, Forgive Me

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• The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know.

  Shawn Colvin

  Past, Stronger, Knows

  Song: Shotgun Down the Avalanche, Album: Steady On, 1989

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• Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.

  Rick Warren

  Commitment, Fighting, Race

  Invocation at the First Presidential Inauguration Ceremony for Barack Obama, delivered 20 January 2009,

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• To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know one another; when we do so, the stereotypes that impede relationships will fall away. Finally, we can express regret to others for past prejudicial sins and ask God to forgive us and change our thinking.

  Beth Moore

  Children, Regret, Fall

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• What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Light, Thank God

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.69, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I grew up on network sitcoms. If those are gone when I'm 65 years old, I would never forgive myself for not stepping up to that plate, as often as possible. I'm already bummed out that DVDs are dying off because, in my 20s, those were a huge thing.

  Dan Harmon

  Dvds, Years, Dying

  "Dan Harmon Talks RICK AND MORTY, Working for Adult Swim, Animation vs Live-Action, COMMUNITY, and Much More". Press Tour Interview, collider.com. July 27, 2013.

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• He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Unjust, Favors, Deserve

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.12, Destiny Image Publishers

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• The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  People, News, God Love

  Twitter post from Jun 17, 2015

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• Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Knowing, Forgive Me, Want

  Twitter post from Mar 28, 2015

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• Our God is righteous enough to judge and kind enough to forgive.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Judging, Kind, Enough

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2015

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• It's all about God. May He forgive us for every time we start to think it's actually all about us.

  Alistair Begg

  Thinking, May

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• The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

  Timothy Keller

  Rejoice

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• Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

  Andy Andrews

  Reset Button, Forgive Me, Buttons

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2015

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