Quotes About Forgiveness

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

You don't love if you don't take the beloved's faults for virtues.

The time of Jesus and grace has come.

Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.

My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.

God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be." --Brennan Manning

When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.

Of the affairs of love ... my only advice is to be honest. That's your most powerful tool to unlock a heart or gain forgiveness.

With genuine love and compassion, another person's appearance or behavior has no affect on your attitude.

As high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is God's love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

Bad guys need love too.

I don't judge. I'm not God. We're supposed to be less judgmental and accept and be kind and love one another.

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God's love in the Bible. Other than Christ's death, there is no greater picture of love.

The sign of sincere love is to forgive wrongs done to us. It was with such love that the Lord loved the world.

It's the beginning of opening to love. Even if there's not much feeling of compassion toward oneself, just say, "It's okay, sweetheart," or "I'm sorry and I love you."

For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love.

the only thing left to do is love

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate.

... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.

Who you are is love. What love does is heal.

In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.