Graham Joyce Quotes

All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.

Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals

Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me.

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.

I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.

What have I to forgive and whom?

When you haven't forgiven those who've hurt you, you turn back against your future. When you do forgive, you start walking forward.

I have made mistakes, but I feel that the people who have done things to me - they should be ashamed.

I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.

Then she made up her mind.It was absurd to pretend that he did not exist.It no longer hurt her to see him. She opened the door wide and let him into her life again.

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?

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.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.

I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them.

FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy...Double The Victory.

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may give buoyancy to the soul. In many families, there are hurt feelings and a reluctance to forgive. It doesn’t really matter what the issue was. It cannot and should not be left to injure. Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals. George Herbert, an early 17th-century poet, wrote these lines: ‘He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need of forgiveness.’