Pastoral Resources

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness.

I 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.

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.