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Quotes About Forgiveness

If there is anybody here I have not offended, I apologize.
~ Johannes Brahms
On going to hell…. "When I think of judgment day, I get emotional. It's a heavy thing. I did what I did and there's no erasing it. I can write an honest book, be an honest man, help little old ladies across the street but what's done is done. There's no escaping that. Whatever it is, I'll do my time, even for eternity.
~ John "Red" Shea
This was in the days when I was making myself over. So difficult it was, to judge just so, to forge the fine discriminations, to maintain a balance--no one could know how difficult. If it had been a work of art I was fashioning they would have applauded my mastery. Perhaps that was my mistake, to do it all in secret, instead of openly, with a flourish. They would have been entertained; they would have forgiven me; Harlequin is always forgiven, always survives.
~ John Banville
We did our best, Anna and I. We forgave each other for all we were not.
~ John Banville
and if, 0 my love, my heart is breaking, please neglect my cries and I will spare you.
~ John Berryman
Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans.Spare their women for Thy Sake,And if that is not too easyWe will pardon Thy Mistake.But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be,Don't let anyone bomb me.
~ John Betjeman
The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.
~ John Bevere
If we don't risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.
~ John Bevere
Many are unable to function properly in their calling because of the wounds and hurts that offenses have caused in their lives. They are handicapped and hindered from fulfilling their full potential. Most often it is a fellow believer who has hurt them.
~ John Bevere
In My greatest hour of need, My closest friends deserted Me. Judas betrayed Me, Peter denied Me, and the rest fled for their lives. Only John followed from afar. I had cared for them for over three years, feeding them and teaching them. Yet as I died for the sins of the world, I forgave. I released all of them—from My friends who had deserted Me to the Roman guard who had crucified Me. They didn't ask for forgiveness, yet I freely gave it.
~ John Bevere
A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM.
~ John Bevere
Love forgets wrongs so that there is hope for the future.
~ John Bevere
There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.
~ John Boyne
Maybe there were no villains in my mother's story at all. Just men and women, trying to do their best by each other. And failing.
~ John Boyne
But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.
~ John Boyne
Humankind's strongest social bonds and actions, including the capacities for cooperation and forgiveness, and for killing and allowing oneself to be killed, are born of commitment to causes and courses of action that are "ineffable"—that is, fundamentally immune to logical assessment for consistency and to empirical evaluation for costs and consequences.
~ John Brockman
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
~ John Bunyan
Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the Spirit of grace, and so grow proud of your own abilities, or of what you have received from God.
~ John Bunyan
The suffering we bring on ourselves, we can ask to be taken away from us once we repent of it. The suffering sent to instruct us, we can ask for the strength to endure, and the humbleness to be instructed.
~ John C. Wright
The version of you who forgot his love, a creature more lithotroph than human, failed to pull the trigger, but died on the field of honor. Some say he turned his gun on himself before you shot him." Montrose put his face in his hands. He shot himself in a duel for love of Rania. He remembered having done something like this before.
~ John C. Wright
For all the expiations have no other meaning than that God will be always merciful, as often as the sinner shall flee to the refuge of his pardon.
~ John Calvin
When He orders you to forgive that man for whatever sin he has committed against you, He calls you to do so not because that man deserves it, but because God Himself has forgiven you (Luke 17:3–4).
~ John Calvin
give what is absolutely free, because he sees nothing in us that can be a ground of salvation.
~ John Calvin
First, since by God's command all the saints daily ask for their sins to be forgiven (Matt.6:12), they confess themselves sinners. They do not ask in vain, for the Lord Jesus never bade us ask for something which he would not give us.
~ John Calvin