Help us to forgive ourselves as we struggle in our process of forgiving others."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
Stichwörter: forgiveness grace-of-god r-alan-woods processes
People fail each other all the time, Mo, and they forgive each other, and start again. It's a question of knowing the other person's limitations. Knowing what's fair to expect of them. Knowing what's fair for them to expect of you.
Erica O'RourkeStichwörter: forgiveness tolerance
How accommodating love is; it forgives everything.
Isabel AllendeStichwörter: love forgiveness heartbreak forgiving
If you can't forgive and forget, then pick one and do it ...
Jim BraultStichwörter: humor forgiveness forgetting
When anything in life is an absolute requirement for your happiness and self-worth, it is essentially an ‘idol,’ something you are actually worshiping. When such a thing is threatened, your anger is absolute. Your anger is actually the way the idol keeps you in its service, in its chains. Therefore if you find that, despite all the efforts to forgive, your anger and bitterness cannot subside, you may need to look deeper and ask, ‘What am I defending? What is so important that I cannot live without?’ It may be that, until some inordinate desire is identified and confronted, you will not be able to master your anger.
Timothy J. KellerStichwörter: happiness security forgiveness anger idolatry bitterness
Forgiveness is a gift we can only give to ourselves.
Jeffrey Spahr-SummersStichwörter: inspirational love hope forgiveness
Because the truth was, and we both knew it, he'd gone long, long ago. I'd just made him stick around when he really wanted to be somewhere else. In his own weird way, he was another victim of the shooting, One of the ones who couldn't get away.
"Are you mad?" he asked, which I thought was a really strange question.
"Yes," I said. And I was. It's just that I wasn't so sure I was mad at him. But I don't think he needed to hear that part. I don't think he wanted to hear that part. I think it was important to him to hear that I cared enough to be angry.
"Will you ever forgive me?" he asked.
"Will you ever forgive me?" I shot back, leveling my gaze directly into his eyes.
He stared into them for a few moments then got up silently and headed for the door. He didn't turn around when he reached it. Just grabbed the doorknob and held it.
"No," he said without facing me. "Maybe that makes me a bad parent, but I don't know if I can. No matter what the police found, you were involved in that shooting, Valerie. You wrote those names on that list. You wrote my name on that list. You had a good life here. You might not have pulled the trigger, but you helped cause the tragedy."
He opened the door."I'm sorry. I really am." He stepped out into the hallway. "I'll leave my new address and phone number with your mother," he said before walking slowly out of my sight.
Stichwörter: parents forgiveness divorce unforgiven father daughter school-shooting
It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.
Criss JamiStichwörter: friendship love learning youth faith curiosity forgiveness desire depth development loyalty relationship faithfulness young seeking bonds young-love intrigue
With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.
Susan SontagStichwörter: beauty society genius forgiveness generosity social-norms leniency exemptions
Love, not anger, brought Jesus to the cross. Golgotha came as a result of God's great desire to forgive, not his reluctance. Jesus knew that by his vicarious suffering he could actually absorb all the evil of humanity and so heal it, forgive it, redeem it.
Richard J. FosterStichwörter: sin forgiveness salvation jesus golgotha the-cross calvary
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