Forgiveness Quotes

I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.

Who understands much, forgives much.

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

Forgiveness, quite frankly, is the most selfish thing you can do. Because it is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.

Without forgiveness, there can be no real freedom to act within a group.

If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

Forgiveness isn't an end in itself. The point of forgiveness is to remove the barrier that stands between us and God so that He can give us His Spirit and bring us into His everlasting family.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.

I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Forgiveness means that problems of the past no longer dictate our destinies, and we can focus on the future with God's love in our hearts.

What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves To wash it white as snow?

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.

I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

We are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.

Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.

If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?

Whoever aspires to win the grace of God should cultivate at the outset the quality of Kshama (Forgiveness).

The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.

If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

Bread of Life? Jesus lived up to the title. But an unopened loaf does a person no good. Have you received the bread? Have you received God's forgiveness?

The door to my heart opens inward. I move through forgiveness to love.

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.

Exchange love for hate...Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.

Whatever the reasons, when forgiveness happens it is always a miracle of grace. The obstacles in its way are immense

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love.

Don’t be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.

We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.