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Quotes About Forgiveness

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.
~ Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Getting revenge on a guy is just not worth it to me. I mean, it definitely sucks at the time, but obviously you're not supposed to be with that person.
~ Carrie Underwood
Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.
~ Justin Hartley
Give no time to finding fault of criticism.
~ Marvin J. Ashton
Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.
~ Rachel Held Evans
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.
~ Jerry Bridges
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
~ John Dryden
I made mistakes, I drank too much, I smoked some crack some time. What can I say? I made a mistake, I'm human.
~ Rob Ford
You figure that time could heal all wounds, but some people just really hold a crazy grudge.
~ Steven Adler
Now is not the time for making new enemies.
~ Voltaire
I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.
~ Mike Tyson
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
~ Ovid
If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.
~ Ambrose
All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.
~ Bob Dylan
...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
I spent a lot of time [between takes] apologising to Peter Dinklage [Dance's on-screen son, Tyrion Lannister] because I treat him appallingly.
~ Charles Dance
Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man.
~ Charles Spurgeon
If I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.
~ Dennis Miller
Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.
~ Shaun Alexander
I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'
~ Kevin Leman
I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.
~ Lawrence James