What is forgiveness? An emotion? A coping mechanism? An element of deepest faith? A way for the heart and soul to combat the type of hate, anger, rage and a thirst for revenge that could ultimately consume a person? All of those and more?
Every one of us have been disappointed before and have had to go through the grieving process of anger and, you know, disappointment and then acceptance and forgiveness.
Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with ‘deserve.’
I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.
We need Grace and forgiveness.
Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.
Forgiveness has an uncanny way of bringing incredible good out of incredibly bad situations.
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.
I clearly have done things that were wrong. I’ve clearly had to seek God’s forgiveness.
The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
‘Ida’ is about humanity, about guilt and forgiveness. It’s not a film that deals with an issue as such. It’s more universal.
Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.
I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial… whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.
I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.
These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.
I have to ask Allah’s forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it’s not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
When there’s that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.
China’s idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.
The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church’s testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.
My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.
Forgiveness isn’t about condoning what has happened to you or someone else’s actions against you.
I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.
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 love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!