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Quotes About Forgiveness

I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.
~ Charles Bukowski
Probably the most profound thing in the Bible is 'Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.' This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.
~ Dave Brubeck
Love forgives the lover even his lust.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance
~ James Augustus St. John
Love overlooks a person's faults. That's not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.
~ Joel Osteen
He does not show humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?), but he who, being rebuked by another, does not decrease his love toward him.
~ John Climacus
Go my friend bestow your love even on your enemies if you touch their hearts what do you think will happen.
~ Rumi
To what will love not stoop!
~ Samuel Beckett
dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.
~ Thomas Merton
The only way love punishes in by suffering.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My hope is that this movie will affect people on a very profound level and reach them with a message of faith, hope, love and forgiveness.
~ Mel Gibson
If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace.
~ Paul of the Cross
To follow Jesus means to share his merciful love for every human being.
~ Pope Francis
Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.
~ Publilius Syrus
I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.
~ Robert Breault
I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
~ Deb Caletti
A child needs your love most when he deserves it least
~ Erma Bombeck
God's love is an exercise of his goodness toward sinners who merit only condemnation.
~ J. I. Packer
But there's the beauty of life beyond the bubble. It's possible for someone to see your wicked bits and still love you.
~ Kristin Chenoweth
Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You'll make mistakes along the way, but that's where growth and forgiveness come in.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
God's love is bigger than our failures and stronger than any chains that bind us.
~ Jennifer Rothschild