Forgiven Quotes
Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.
The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.
Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.
Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.
Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.
Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.
Other people may well not find it relevant that you have forgiven yourself, but you need to know that it is not for them anyway. Everything at the moment is wholly about you.
A broken and mended relationship turns out to be stronger than one that has never been broken, almost like how bones can become even stronger once broken and then healed.
Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done.
Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.
All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.
The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.
If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.
The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.
Remember, forgiveness is not a millstone but a milestone!
Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.
This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.
We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.
You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!
Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.
What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense.
You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.
The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.
One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.
I have saved by grace. My sins are forgiven. This is my greatest gratitude.
Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.
No one can claim perfection, that's why everyone needs a second chance ad infinitum
A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls
A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness
I was taught that you can’t expect to be forgiven when you continuously commit the same sin over and over again.
None of us deserve the good things that come our way. It's by grace, love and forgiveness that any of us experience joy.
Forgive all before you go to sleep, you'll be forgiven before you get up. – Lord Krishna.
God has forgiven and still forgives us when we repent from our sins, an indication that we are not called to sin, but to live in accordance with His will.
Christians are free to serve and obey God since they are loved, justified, redeemed, reconciled, forgiven, saved, and sustained to the end!
God Himself even "forgets" the wickedness committed by those whom He has forgiven. That's why it is never too late to clean up your life.