Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness is God's command.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme: But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues.

Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.

Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And who with Eden didst devise the Snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened. Man's Forgiveness give - and take!

What power has love but forgiveness?

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.