Forgiveness Quotes
Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.
The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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.
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.
If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance
When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
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.
On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
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.
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.
My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.
God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in others. But I don't.
Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.
The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.
Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You’ll make mistakes along the way, but that’s where growth and forgiveness come in.
Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars
Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take!
