Quotes About Forgiveness

Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

Have mercy on me, OGod, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins.

Because of the lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Loving your enemies does not mean you have to agree with or accept what they do. You can still love all of mankind and be outspoken for what you believe.

Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is lo

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

In love, the past is not important, but the present. Experience is more relevant than the pain you went through. The only thing that will make it stronger is forgiveness and not the retorting of sin.

St. Peter scold me saying son, where have you been? And he saw me with you and asked why are you with that person? and I said to him sorry St. Peter, I though it was heaven.

No matter how many times I get hurt because of you, I won't leave you. Because even if I have a hundred reasons to leave you, I'll look for that one reason to fight for you.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Love ever gives. Forgives outlives. And ever stands with open hands. And while it lives, it gives. For this is love's prerogatives -- to give, and give, and give.

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

It has been said that God's gift is also indescribable because of the grace by which it is given. God, who is rich in mercy, gave the world the gift of His dear Son while we were at enmity with Him. Paul says: 'But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us' (Rom. 5:8). Therefore, in Him we are freely given all things: redemption, forgiveness of sins, righteousness, peace, hope, wisdom and knowledge

When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too

The things that people in love do to each other they remember, and if they stay together it?s not because they forget, it's because they forgive.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.