Quotes About Forgiveness

Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness.

We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging.

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

Everyone, regardless of his or her decisions, deserves our kindness!

Look to see the best in everyone - especially in those who refuse to do the same. Perhaps your kindness will break someone's shell or be a catalyst to change their mind.

Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.

Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.

There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.

Err in the direction of kindness.

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.

I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.