Forgiveness Quotes

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

It may be easier to get forgiveness than permission, but trust is harder to get back than both.

My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.

Kindness manifests in a lot of ways, such as acts of compassion, helpfulness, empathy, forgiveness, and caring. These gestures kindle and ignite feelings of love.

Forgiveness doesn't mean we have to pretend someone didn't hurt us.

The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.

Forgiveness is like a great act of compassion. That it was done not because someone deserved it, but because they needed it.

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

Sometimes forgiveness is instant, but sometimes it takes time.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

Forgiveness is just such a big deal.

David did not pay for his forgiveness. He did pay for his unforgiveness.

God's kiss of forgiveness sucks the poison out of the wound.

Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.

Feel the force of forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not cheap even though it's free.

Some say you forgive and forget. Not true. You can't forget but you walk forward in forgiveness.

Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.

...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.

We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.

I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness.

These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

Temper justice with mercy.

Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.

The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store.

Humanization and coming to understand somebody as a human being is about as good a kind of forgiveness as you can get, I think.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.

Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

The hardest thing about finding forgiveness is that you had to find it at all.

Forgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians.

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.

Forgive, forget, learn the lesson and move forward!

Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. That's why I forgive Reince Priebus, that little Greek rascal.