Forgiveness Quotes

I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.

Forgiveness is a form of the highest love

If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Forgiveness is, first of ali, a gift I give myself.

We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it's a choice.

Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul.

I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.

Injuries too well remembered cannot heal.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. For the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.

Forgiveness is the reason for the crucifixion, and the crucifixion is the reason for the Incarnation.

A coward never forgives.

Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.

Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

Forgiveness is the only way to heal

Take care that no one hates you justly.

There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

The cut worm forgives the plow.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.

Pain is no longer pain when it is past.

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.

It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

I can always forgive where I understand.

The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.