Forgiveness Quotes

Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

GIFTS is an acronym for Gratitude, Intention, Forgiveness, Triumphs, and Self-love. I believe that those are the principles we need to explore in order to discover our true gifts.

It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.

The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Know all and you will pardon all.

I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving.

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.

God's forgiveness extends to the worst offenders and to anyone who wishes to receive it-not because of who we are, but because of who He is.

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness.