Forgiveness Quotes - Page 5

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Perhaps one could say I've worked in South Africa too long, but I believe in forgiveness, especially when a person admits a mistake, asks for forgiveness, and works to right a wrong.

Historically, narratives of forgiveness were part of both the anti-slavery movement and the civil rights movement in America. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' for instance, was based loosely on the life of the Rev. Josiah Henson, who forgave his master that wanted to sell him and beat him after Henson begged him not to.

Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

I'm not trying to convert the entire nation of Israel and the entire nation of Palestine to Christianity. But at least if you can educate them about the ideology of love, the ideology of forgiveness, the ideology of grace. Those principles are great regardless, but we can't deny they came from Christianity as well.

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior's Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.

Forgiveness allowed me to wash my burdened past away.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

I've learned powerful lessons about the nature of forgiveness from human rights defenders. For example, for the greater good of his country, Kofi Woods emerged from a torture chamber in Liberia to later defend the very men who had brutalized him.

I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

If you look at everything I do - even in 'Boo!' there's a message, and it's always 'faith, family, forgiveness.' That's the greatest gift that I've been given. I can get a message to the very people I grew up with, the millions who love what I do.

I think there are different levels of forgiveness.

I am a minister and I preach forgiveness all time.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

One of the great qualities we have is forgiveness.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

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.