Quotes About Forgiveness

In a noisy world in which misunderstanding and error are possible, Tit for Tat is bested by an even more forgiving strategy called Generous Tit for Tat. Every once in a while Generous Tit for Tat will randomly grant forgiveness to a defector and resume cooperating. The act of unconditional forgiveness can flick a duo that has been trapped in a cycle of mutual defection back onto the path of cooperation.

So not just vengeance, but also forgiveness and contrition, are necessary for social organisms

Sympathy, recall, tends to be expressed in communal relationships, the kind that are also accompanied by guilt and forgiveness. Anything that creates a communal relationship, then, should also create sympathy.

I've seen hatred and I have seen love. And love is more powerful.

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.

Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.

The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

If we could throw away the hate and make love last another day, don't give up just for today, life would be so simple

I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.

Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens.

Our hearts do not need logic. They can love and forgive and accept that which our minds cannot comprehend. Hearts understand in ways minds cannot.

Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.

My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.

Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love.

Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well.

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.