Quotes About Forgiveness

I still love the people I've loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.

We need to learn how to keep people through love. Despite imperfections, sins, and irritating habits of other Christians, they belong to Jesus and they need our love as a healthy climate for growth.

You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.

Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.

We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

When you truly love yourself, you don't have enemies. They may hate you but you're too big to hate them back.

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines through you.

If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

I demand from you deeds of mercy which are to arise out of love for me. You are to show mercy to your neighbors always and everywhere. You must not shrink from this or try to excuse yourself from it.