Quotes About Forgiveness

It isn't right to wish pain on other people just because they hurt me first.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.

We as believers cannot be effective in offering others hope and forgiveness when we're not living in the light of that hope.

I haven't made time for pity or blame or even resentment. All of those things take too much energy. I just don't have it to spare.

You've come to the wrong shop for mercy.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.

It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.

We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

With our own shortcomings, we are in no position to judge anyone else. The best way to forget the faults of others is to remember our own.

The best way to get rid of your enemies is to make them your friends.

Sometimes the best way to forgive is to let the other person forget.

The best way of become forgiving is to feel gratitude.

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.