Charles Spurgeon Quotes

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

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

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.

God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.

I feel like God has forgiven me of so much, that I will forgive everyone who has hurt us.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

Revenge is easy, but forgiveness requires courage.

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

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.

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

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.

We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake.

Forgive everyone everything.

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.