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Quotes About Forgiveness

One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.
~ Marcus Eremita
I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter
You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.
~ Richard Branson
One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
The Savior empowers us with His grace, not because we've earned it, but because He loves us perfectly.
~ Sheri L. Dew
We have such a law: If you forgive, it means that God has forgiven you; but if you do not forgive your brother, it means that your sin remains with you.
~ Silouan the Athonite
Grant people a lifetime of forgiveness before you even meet them.
~ Thomas Leonard
There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
~ Mark Twain
I have shed enough tears over you lately and you don't deserve any of them
~ Stella Knights, Taken Outback
When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you..
~ Jon Krakauer
Out of all the things in life sometimes its the kindness you cant repay that really hurt.
~ Jackson Taviri
Decisions are never made in retrospect, hence there is no point regretting them, ever.
~ David Darson
It's no use crying over spilt milkWhat's done, is done.
~ James Howell
I weep for the stupidity of my sins.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
~ Óscar Arias
Without confession, there is no remission of sins.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Sin is all wrong doing.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
If one night you see someone committing a sin, tomorrow do not look at him as a sinner. He may have repented during the night and you did not know.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
Letting go doesn't have to mean walking away. It means the things that hurt you don't hurt you anymore.
~ Sue Fitzmaurice
I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began
~ C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
And you are more than the mistakes of your youth. You are more than the label you've been assigned by people who might love you, but don't really know who you are anymore.
~ Penny Reid, Grin and Beard It
Do not take to heart any ill-action.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Accept what it, forget what was.
~ Sue Fitzmaurice
Don't be quick to get angry.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita