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Quotes About Forgiveness

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?
~ Dorothy Osborne
Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Kindness nobler ever than revenge.
~ William Shakespeare
Requite injury with kindness.
~ Laozi
I'ma forgive all the people that took my kindness as weakness. I'ma forgive anyone who never hit me back. I'ma forgive all ya'll. I won't forget.
~ Behdad Sami
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things.
~ Sophie Swetchine
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
~ Mother Teresa
Be kind to UNKIND people.They need it the most.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
Remember your grandpa's saying: kill them with kindness.
~ C.B. Cook, Paralyzed Dreams
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
~ Catherine the Great
For someone who has sinned as much as I have, every moment of contemplation becomes an unexpected gift from the Creator Himself.
~ Javier Sierra
I believe that forgiveness given prematurely is its own form of punishment. When the hand is offered before the heart says it's time, judgment lurks behind every smile.
~ Jax Peters Lowell
According to Leviticus 19:17, 18 it is of the essence of love for one's neighbor to avoid grudge bearing by dealing immediately with matters that have come between them. Resentment and hatred are not easily distinguished in Scripture.
~ Jay E. Adams
When help in changing is not sought and the old ways and the old relationships are allowed to continue, the parties set themselves up for a reoccurrence of the offense. Mutual effort to discover and solve issues God's way must be encouraged by the counselor. The only way to cement a new relationship that will enable both parties to forgive and forget past offenses and to avoid and/or handle future failures as well is by means of such effort.
~ Jay E. Adams
In all such interpersonal relations, principles previously set forth in other sections of this book are applicable. The teacher must be careful to stress the urgency for reconciliation, the need for forgiveness and help, the importance of first removing the log from one's own eye, and the necessity for attacking problems rather than people.
~ Jay E. Adams
Of course I apologized, but I couldn't shake the sense that I was truly an asshole.
~ Jay Kopelman
You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
~ Jay Leno
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
~ Jay Leno
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
~ Jay McInerney
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
~ Jay McInerney
I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.
~ Jayson Blair
Cinnamon and sugar and a second chance....how could that not be sign?
~ Jean Brashear
S'il fallait condamner Tous les ingrats qui sont au monde, A qui pourrait-on pardonner?
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Someday soon I will join the inhabitants of heaven in praising You with the depth of understanding, appreciation, wonder, and zeal that You deserve. Until then, thank You for the Cross. Thank You for the Resurrection. Thank You for good news of forgiveness. Thank You for the Holy Spirit indwelling. Thank You for the Word. Thank You for the church, the body of Christ. Thank You for giving me a future and a hope. Thank You.
~ Jean Fleming