Forgiveness Quotes

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

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.

...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.

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.

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

Forgiveness is not cheap even though it's free.

Feel the force of forgiveness.

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.

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

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

Forgiveness is just such a big deal.

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

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

Sometimes forgiveness is instant, but sometimes it takes time.

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.

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

The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.

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

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.

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.

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.

Ramadan is a month whose beginning is Mercy, whose middle is Forgiveness and whose end is Freedom from the fire.

There's a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don't give you. It's the two hour construct. You're in there and it needs to climax and finish.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Men are less forgiving than women.

Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.

It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it takes more spiritual asset than continued alcohol often leaves.

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.

Consequences don’t just go away. They aren’t suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.

It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

It is always easier to get forgiveness than permission.

There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead.

Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.

Forgiveness. It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place.

Ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn’t plan to ask for either one.

Sleeping with forgiveness in your heart for me.

I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me.

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

Forgiveness works the miracle of change.

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.