Forgiveness
172 quotes: 14 by Keith Craft, 158 from other voices.
Keith Craft on Forgiveness
- Forgiveness creates a miraculous flow of peace because it breaks the dam of bitterness.
- You can’t be the beneficiary of the best in someone until you are willing to see past the worst in them.
- If someone walks away from you, don’t let them take your heart with them.
- Revenge is not only NOT sweet, but it traps us in a spirit of offense and keeps us stuck in the past.
- You need to heal from what hurt you, so that you don't block what can help you.
- When someone says something hurtful, you can choose... 1. To be offended 2. Return evil for evil 3. Reviling for reviling... or BE the Bigger person.
- The devil hates God-ordained relationships that's why he works so hard to bring offense and division. Forgive and apologize and disarm the devil.
- If you're going to have great relationships you're going to have to become 1) A great forgiver and 2) A great repenter!
- There are two things you must be willing to do if you want GREAT Relationships: 1) Be a great apologizer and 2) Be a GREAT forgiver.
- The higher purpose for forgiveness is PRO-GIVENESS! Forgiveness happens IN us, so Pro-giveness can happen through us!
- Forgiveness is the hardest thing you will ever do, but it is the greatest thing you will ever do.
- To For-give is to give from what is the best in you.
- The antidote for immaturity is to choose to learn and grow from hurtful people and situations. Don't get stuck in your funk or others either!
- LeaderTip of the Day #26: Forgiveness is the elixir of the soul. When you forgive others, you heal yourself. Who do you need to forgive to heal yourself?
Other voices on Forgiveness
- A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.
- A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.
- An apology is the super glue of life. It can repair just about anything.
- An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
- Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
- Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
- Anger would inflict punishment on another; meanwhile, it tortures itself.
- As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
- Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
- Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.
- Being angry is human. Staying angry is foolish.
- Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.
- Choose to forgive and free your heart.
- Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.
- Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
- Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
- Cultivate forbearance till your heart yields a fine crop of it. Pray for a short memory as to all unkindnesses.
- Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him; forgiving, it sets you above him.
- Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
- Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
- For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.
- For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
- Force may subdue, but Love gains: And he that forgives first, wins the Lawrel.
- Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
- Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
- Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.