Quotes About Compassion

Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.

I think forgiveness is absolutely mandatory. When you don't forgive the only person you are hurting is yourself because you are still harboring the anger and the mental anguish.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

Forgive! How many will say, forgive, and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer!

For every sin there is forgiveness, and especially for the sins of youth.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

Forgiveness essentially means giving up your right to make other people pay for the wrongs they have committed against you.

The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.

All forgiveness is self forgiveness.

I discovered that forgiveness is a path to freedom.

Temper justice with mercy.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.

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