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Quotes About Forgiveness

There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.
~ John Bunyan
If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
~ C. S. Lewis
Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!
~ Saadi
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!
~ Phyllis Bottome
May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.
~ Pope Francis
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
~ J. C. Ryle
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!
~ William Shakespeare
All our blasphemies are only little prayers.
~ Antoni Lange
If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.
~ Vavasor Powell
If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.
~ J. C. Ryle
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
~ Saint Augustine
Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.
~ Marcus Eremita
It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
~ Brent Weeks
The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.
~ Paulo Coelho
Prayer is the best response to hatred.
~ Charles Spurgeon
If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.
~ William Shakespeare
The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.
~ Boyd K. Packer
I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
~ Emily Bronte
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
~ Robert Frost
We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
~ William Shakespeare
Being a messenger of love is all about caring for every person in your orbit unconditionally and ceaselessly. The harder the other person makes it for you, the more love you need to send their way.
~ Pooja Ruprell
O Lord forgive what I have been sanctify what I am and order what I shall be.
~ Anonymous
How many of us will ever sit... bow our heads and pray "Lord show me where I'm wrong"?
~ Anonymous