Quotes About Understanding

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.

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

Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.

In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.

Reject hatred without hating.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.

Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.