Forgiveness Quotes

There is, however, a far more common ailment among us—and that is pride from the bottom looking up. ...

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was and is the lack of a thankful heart.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

We forgive so long as we love.

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotles...

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Hi...

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of...

A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kin...

The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet."May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased h...

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly.

The terror of being judged sharpens the memory: it sends an inevitable glare over that long-unvisite...

There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would...

It had been well if he had been left with only a wounded heart, but in that heart lay wounded pride....

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life.

I came to England weak in body, and, in consequence of much study, as I suppose, I was taken ill on ...

The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures...

Happiness lies first of all in health.

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

The end of pain we take as happiness.

You can be happy indeed if you have breathing space from pain.

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to ...

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner res...

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great vir...

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred,...

Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it.

I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive.

... but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone y...

One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

God will forgive me that is His business.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents th...

A man is rich in proportion to the things he can afford to let alone.

However mean your life is meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so ...

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of...

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I sho...

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at ...

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at ...

"I can forgive but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying "I will not forgive." Forgivenes...

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and ...

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour so...

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at ...

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at ...

My country ... gave me schooling independence of action and opportunity for service. ... I am indeb...

If you hate a person you hate something in him that is part of yourself.

There is satiety in all things in sleep and love-making in the loveliness of singing and the inno...

Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint ...

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Some troubles like a protested note of a solvent debtor bear interest.

Let him who has enough wish for nothing more.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

Anger is a short madness.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.

Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.

Lo, God! I am Thy handiwork. I have sinned and have done great evil, yet I am still Thy handiwork, w...

Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveri...

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish to rage and be furious is brutish and to maintain p...

...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.

Health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.

He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave ...

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

These two poles, the unconditional and the conditional, are absolutely heterogeneous, and must remai...

I remain ‘torn’ (between a ‘hyberbolic’ ethical vision of forgiveness, pure forgiveness, and the rea...

Good heavens of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed ... if we only knew it. Wh...

Health is the vital principle of bliss.

Health is the vital principle of bliss.

Health is the vital principle of bliss.

Health is the vital principle of bliss.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love.

To forgive is a gift of God that permits us to let go of our past hurts.

Better to suffer than to die.

We are never content with our lot.

The happiest is he who suffers the least pain the most miserable he who enjoys the least pleasure.

I may not amount to much but at least I am unique.

I am sure that if we can find reconciliation with our past – whether parents, partners or friends – ...

As women, we almost never give ourselves enough credit for what we're capable of, for what we endure...

The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity safeguard liberty and integr...

A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it’s hungry. You keep feeding it more...

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them fo...

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please...

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is jo...

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recog...

We cannot ignore our gift of the future.

Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let...

The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a perso...

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because o...

You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if ...