Sentence examples for forgiveness given from inspiring English sources

There can be healing of relationships, forgiveness sought and forgiveness given, healing of old wounds and hurts, and spiritual healing.

The forgiveness given in the courtroom was likely more about healing for the families than blind willingness to accept the act of a killer.

In the cases, say, of a battered woman continually returning to her spouse or an abusive cleric who is transferred from congregation to congregation, forgiveness given inappropriately also can endanger the victims and others.

Witness the forgiveness given by the families of those slain at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston and the reaction of the Amish who cared for the family of Charles Roberts after he killed five little Amish girls in Pennsylvania.

Forgiveness gives us the capacity to make a new start.

Marina Cantacuzino, from the Forgiveness Project, explained how forgiveness – "giving up all hope of a better past … has helped people enormously in moving on".

Mr. Massie, convicted of murders in 1965 and 1979, had abandoned his own appeals to protest the slow pace of the state's death row, and his last words were, "Forgiveness: giving up all hope for a better past".

Forgiveness gives us a chance to become clean and healed.

Forgiveness gives us a way out that is neither denial nor staying locked in a resentful place.

For youth, prayer was described as powerful for reconciling past events and asking forgiveness, giving strength in the present and providing hope for the future.

Likely, forgiveness gave you the opportunity to be a kind and more responsible human being.