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Quotes About Forgiveness

We all have the same problems in relationships.
~ Phil Collins
Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.
~ William P. Young
The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.
~ Garth Brooks
God is the Father who is full of mercy. God is the Father who is full of comfort. That is the kind of relationship he offers to you.
~ Rick Warren
If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.
~ Myles Munroe
True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.
~ James E. Faust
I'll probably always love him. Doesn't mean I can ever trust him again. That doesn't make a relationship.
~ Abbi Glines
It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.
~ Billy Joel
An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty.
~ Joyce Vissell
It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.
~ Heather Graham
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
~ Jim Elliot
Perhaps the saddest thing to admit is that those who rejected the Cross have to carry it, while those who welcomed it are so often engaged in crucifying others.
~ Nikolai Berdyaev
"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!
~ John William Fletcher
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
~ Marquis de Sade
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
~ Willa Cather
Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
~ William Sloane Coffin Jr.
Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
~ Jules Feiffer
Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.
~ Adrian Rogers
The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.
~ John Stott
You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Christianity is a religion for losers.
~ Ted Turner
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.
~ Nick Hornby