Principles: Forgiveness

Understanding the futility of carrying a grudge, resulting in kindness beyond what justice requires.

Creates in Self:
Happiness
Fairness
Understanding
Caring

Creates in Society:
Generosity
Kindness
Peace
Leadership
Sensitivity

Thoughts, Goals and Meditations about Forgiveness:
I understand and forgive
Bad feelings hurt me too
I am special when I forgive
My generosity is above fairness
I will lead with kindness
I am happy when I forgive
Be kinder than necessary
Friends forgive friends
Final peace in your act of forgiveness
Improve the world first in your heart
Forgiveness is the right thing to do
Don't carry a grudge--forgive and forget
Forgiveness is a high form of caring
Leaders are sensitive to mistakes
Learning to forgive is learning to live
A smile starts the act of forgiveness
Growth includes the need to forgive
Forgiveness is a gift to yourself

Scriptures on the Principle of Forgiveness

Proverbs 19:11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Proverbs 24:17 Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

Proverbs 25:21 If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Matthew 5:39-41 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him
have thy cloke also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

Matthew 6:12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

Matthew 6:14-15 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 18:21-22 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.

Mark 11:25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Luke 17:3-4 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

Romans 12:14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

Romans 12:17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

Ephesians 4:32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

Colossians 3:13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

1 Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.