Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.
Charlotte BrontëTag: forgiveness final-words love-and-hate
Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.
Rachael BerminghamTag: inspirational-quotes forgiveness responsibility parenting motivational-quotes
Contemporaries relate that hearing Martin Luther pray was "an experience in theology". They said the reformer began praying with such humility that he could be pitied, only to proceed with such boldness before God that the human hearer would fear for him.
A.W. TozerTag: forgiveness prayer boldness
But understand that the reason it is so difficult to extend forgiveness to those who have failed us is because we are unable to receive forgiveness for our own failures.
Emily P. FreemanTag: forgiveness failures
To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.
Martin LutherTag: god grace forgiveness
I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling.
Dorothy AllisonTag: writing forgiveness understanding
Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt
Mary McLeod BethuneTag: forgiveness
And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister in faith, or they are your counterpart in humanity.
Imam Ali bin abi TalebTag: humanity forgiveness relations-and-love
Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.
Josee D'AmoreTag: forgiveness forgiving forgive-yourself forgiven forgive-others how-to-forgive
The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting..." (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know.
Brennan ManningTag: god sin forgiveness
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