Quotes About Compassion

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Know all and you will pardon all.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.

When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.

Forgiveness doesn't excuse their actions. Forgiveness stops their actions from destroying your heart.

In families, there are no crimes beyond forgiveness.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.