Quotes About Forgiveness

Don't always expect good things to happen. Your job is to forgive no matter what happens.

If America puts the enmity aside, if it initiates good will, and if it compensates for the past, the future situation between the United States and Iran will change.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will.

Painful memories are gone! Together, we can build up good memories.

To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad.

A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.

I'm not a bad guy... I'm just good guy that runs over women with his car.

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

People who bullied me have matured now. Some are good friends.

Unless you point to the good news of God's grace people will not be able to bear the bad news of God's judgement.

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.

Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.

Is your money that good, will it buy you forgiveness?

There is nothing wrong with what he said or she said or they did, even though it does not feel good.

Being nice doesn't make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.

It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.

Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process.

If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.