Forgiven Quotes

“We do repent not to be forgiven, but because we are forgiven.”

“Forgotten is forgiven.”

“When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.”

“We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.”

“What is forgiven is usually well remembered.”

“As hard as I fought to hold on to my anger, to continue to hate my dad, the tugging of the good memories eventually found an inroad to my heart. No one is all good or all bad. The reality that my father would forever be a part of me was inescapable. A big part of making peace with myself was rediscovering the good in him and claiming that as my inheritance. The act of forgiving wasn’t like flipping a switch—forgiven . . . unforgiven . . . forgiven . . . unforgiven . . . forgiven.”

“In a real love, mistakes are not consider because they are forgiven and forgotten.”

“I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself.”

“Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person on earth can make me denounce my past. It's what made me who I am today.”