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Quotes About Forgiveness

On reflection, I realized that I am the angry one, the ill-tempered one, the miser, and the liar. My job is to conquer me. My tool for doing so is to show warm-heartedness to others, especially when they are not showing it to me. Your opportunity when treated with contempt is to change at least one heart—yours.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore the Second Amendment rights to people who are qualified and have shown themselves qualified to have those rights restored to them.
~ Matt Bevin
One of the great qualities we have is forgiveness.
~ Buster Posey
People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.
~ Mahershala Ali
I apologise now to everybody for being the way I've been. What I was doing, torturing myself over an illness, is horrible. You push them away because you're trying to quantify what's gone on.
~ Andy Cole
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
~ E. M. Forster
Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
~ John Sununu
Whenever best friends get into a fight, I feel like it is always quick to resolve.
~ Casey Cott
Whatever you did in the past is quickly forgotten.
~ N'Golo Kante
Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.
~ Anne Graham Lotz
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
~ Scott Adams
All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.
~ Ray Comfort
Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.
~ Lynn Johnston
I have made a lot of mistakes raising the four Jenner kids.
~ Caitlyn Jenner
My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.
~ Michel Martelly
I'm human, and we make mistakes. My biggest mistake was that I was running away from something here in New York and I ran into the wrong hands.
~ Tinsley Mortimer
I don't want my daughters reading about the day I was furious with one of them and said something horrible, that I didn't mean, except on that particular day.
~ Sheila Hancock
I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.
~ Davy Jones
Blissfully, I don't have the revenge gene.
~ Leo Sayer
Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
~ Ze Frank
Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
~ Phaedrus
There are a few people who genuinely see the best in everyone.
~ Katherine Parkinson
I am not a German bitter-ender. I am, though, a German never-forgetter.
~ Richard Cohen
I am not running for president, but I've always known if I ever did run for president - or local dogcatcher, for that matter - the boy I bullied would and should arise as a necessary ghost from my past.
~ Tom Junod