Quotes About Forgiveness

Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.

Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.

Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.

If we don't risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.

We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.

There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me.

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.

I love because there is not enough room in my heart to hate.

Love happens when people forgive.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Let us only hate hatred; and once give love a play, we will fall in love with a unicorn.

God loves you enough to receive you as you are. He loves you too much to keep you as you are.

Love is the only medicine that can heal the wounds of the world.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.