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Quotes About Forgiveness

We should never underestimate the great power of the way of love which reaches that spark of good in the other person, always there no matter how deeply buried, and the person is disarmed.
~ Peace Pilgrim
The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you. Posthumus
~ William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
Love is the ultimate power. Never forget to use it to win over your enemies.
~ Debasish Mridha
How beautiful it is to hug someone with kindness when he is trying to hurt you!
~ Debasish Mridha
Jesus didn't die to forgive me of my sin but leave me in it. He died to forgive and to free me from the power of sin.
~ Paula Hendricks
In order to forgive an offender, we have first to forgive ourselves, then we can forgive them.In this way we are nothelpless victims anymore, we regain our power, acting from our peaceful placeof power.
~ Human Angels, 365 Wisdom Pills
We may not have the power to move mountains, but if we have the power to take someone's hand and named them loved and forgiven we have power enough.
~ Dianne Astle
Ghosts are just our minds telling us that subconsciously we feel guilty about something we should have done, would have done, but never took the time!
~ Nell Rose
Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.
~ Dennis R. Miller
I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.
~ Michael Moore
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
~ Billy Graham
Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer
~ Charles Spurgeon
God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
~ Saint Augustine
The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
~ John Bunyan
The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!
~ Cyprian
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
~ Marianne Williamson
Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
~ F. F. Bruce
As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
~ F.B. Meyer
My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.
~ Andres Segovia
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.
~ Immaculee Ilibagiza
We must empty purgatory with our prayers.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
~ Lord Byron