Gary Chapman Quotes

It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option.

Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. ... I know what regret feels like; I've earned my credentials. But I also know what forgiveness feels like, because God has so graciously forgiven me.

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

Healing cannot be done by settling a score.

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.