Quotes About Trust And Forgiveness

#1. Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness.
Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.

Rick Warren

#2. One would say something that challenged the other, often leading to an argument, and she realized how much she'd missed that. Not because they fought, but because of the trust it implied and the forgiveness that inevitably followed.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.

Rick Warren

#4. Forgiveness in no way requires you to trust the one you forgive. It doesn't mean the relationship must be restored. p. 61

Roberta Fish

#5. Just as the rain carries positive ions, so does change make you more apt to experience love with an expansive heart.

Julieanne O'Connor

#6. Forgiveness as the response to the inevitability of failure. Suffering understood as part of life. Trust as the other side of anguish. A permanent thankfulness.

James Carroll

#7. People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.

Newt Gingrich

#8. Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

Billy Graham

#9. All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.

Asa Don Brown

#10. We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

Alison Croggon

#11. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

Hugh Prather

#12. Consistently practice love and everything that falls under the category of love: gratitude, laughter, friendship, joy, forgiveness, acceptance, peace, and trust.

Renee Marino

#13. Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

Wm. Paul Young

#14. Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.

Ellen Hopkins

#15. Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

Margaret Way

#16. And the only thing that ends a war like this is trust, release, love for those we hate, arms around those who would kill us, forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness.

Hugh Howey

#17. Forgiveness comes more readily when, we have faith in God and trust in His word. Such faith enables people to withstand the worst of humanity. It also enables people to look beyond themselves. More importantly, it enables them to forgive.

James E. Faust

#18. Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you'll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you'd get by succeeding. Ironic, isn't it?

Martha Beck

#19. The trust of those in dark need is forgiving work.

Sebastian Barry

#20. He'd meant to forgive his brother, maybe even imagined he had. He'd also meant to learn to trust him, but instead merely fell into the habit of waiting for him to fuck up again.

Richard Russo

#21. The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#22. What is forgiveness worth without trust?

Sharon Kay Penman

#23. Forgiveness is the way we return what has been taken from us and restore the love and kindness and trust that has been lost. With each act of forgiveness, whether small or great, we move toward wholeness. Forgiveness is nothing less than how we bring peace to ourselves and our world.

Desmond Tutu

#24. Can you say the following? Jesus is my Prophet. I've taken His yoke of Truth upon me. Jesus is my Priest. I rely on His sacrifice for sin to give me forgiveness of sins... Jesus is my King. I trust Him to deliver me from evil I submit to His authority over me.

Kenneth Mick

#25. Some say ignorance is bliss, I say love is.

Julieanne O'Connor

#26. Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you

Ed Roland

#27. Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#28. We must give people the chance to change.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. Life's too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what's right. Right by your own heart. ... Forgiveness sets you free.

Cheryl Kaye Tardif

#30. The components of happiness are quite simple. Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now. In its true form each quality includes all the rest, for happiness is whole, and one feels whole when genuinely happy.

Hugh Prather

#31. If you want to speak to someone you cannot touch, see, or hear, the voice of love will transmit with or without a phone. It crosses all borders and travels through time and walls.

Julieanne O'Connor

#32. To forgive' is divine they say, and 'to forget', attracts blessings, but to go a step further, and learn a lesson from a bad encounter/ experience is an act of wisdom;and promise oneself that you will never allow yourself to be exposed to such a thing or a person or even an idea again.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#33. Any time a Christian is conscious of his sin, judges the sin and takes sides against it with a penitent heart, then he has a perfect right to trust the Lord for instant, complete forgiveness and for perfect cleansing.

John R. Rice

#34. The 11 Pillars of Relationship Success #1 Trust #2 Faith #3 Honesty #4 Variety #5 Encouragement #6 Optimism #7 Communication #8 Interest #9 Time Away #10 Forgiveness #11 Initiative

Matt Bishop

#35. You cannot predict the future but you can love and then love some more.

Julieanne O'Connor

#36. Forgiveness doesn't mean what they did is okay," he said softly. "It doesn't mean everything is magically better. It doesn't even mean you have to restore a relationship with that person or trust them again. Forgiveness simply means you let go of the burden that drags you down. It gives you peace.

Stephenia H. McGee

#37. No one should ever be punished for feeling love.

Julieanne O'Connor

#38. While forgiveness is an important part of the gospel, the good news goes beyond that. It amounts to the claim that the kingdom of God - the direct availability of God himself and His rule - is now available to anyone who will enter it through trust in Jesus.

J.P. Moreland

#39. If I expect nothing of you, it will be far easier to forgive your offenses than if I place my whole world in your hands.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#40. Love always trust and forgives.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#41. When it comes to love, your point of view, your imagination and your energy can carry you through anything. As you love, it will spill over to everyone and everything you encounter and beyond. There is no force imaginable that is more powerful than the act of love.

Julieanne O'Connor

#42. Don't trust. Trust is death. Kill him. Kill them all. Oh, to die and be done, done with it all, sleep without dreams, dreams of Ilyena, forgive me, Ilyena, no forgiveness, only death, deserve to die. . . . Rand

Robert Jordan

#43. It may be easier to get forgiveness than permission, but trust is harder to get back than both.

Ingrid Weir

#44. God will forgive you if you ask him to. Though your sins be numerous as the grains of sand on the shore, God's merciful forgiveness is far greater than your sins. Do not be afraid. Trust in his love. Repent of your sins without delay and return to the house of the Father. He is waiting for you.

Patrick Madrid