Content Updated On : 2022-05-28
As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.
30 minutesI think one of the most important things in evolving is forgiveness.
30 minutesI 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.
30 minutesTo confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
30 minutesI've learned powerful lessons about the nature of forgiveness from human rights defenders. For example, for the greater good of his country, Kofi Woods emerged from a torture chamber in Liberia to later defend the very men who had brutalized him.
30 minutesThe practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
30 minutesI could see that it was God's forgiveness and His mercy that I needed, and that was provided through Christ on the Cross for those who will receive Him as Lord and Savior. That is how I came to Christ.
30 minutesYou can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.
30 minutesThankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.'
30 minutesI 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.
30 minutesThe mere acknowledgment that 'God is watching' can act as a trap, fueling bad behavior, corruption, and guilt, all remedied by God's forgiveness. No personal responsibility is needed - someone on the outside sees whatever we're doing and makes it all OK.
30 minutesWe only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness.
30 minutesWhen you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.
30 minutesA wonderful quality about America is that we love redemption stories. We're quick to lash out and assign blame, but we also draw from deep reservoirs of forgiveness.
30 minutesHumanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
30 minutesThe 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.
30 minutesI believe in the redemptive need to admit mistakes, express regret, and ask for forgiveness.
30 minutesOnce people are not here physically, the spiritual remains. We still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies.
30 minutesCan you really forgive if you can't forget?
30 minutesTo understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.
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