Quotes About Forgiveness

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given him.

If only a man could spit his past out so easily.

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

And may God be merciful, because these twisted men will not.

There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

When a man mourns for someone who has played him false, it is not for love of her, but for his own humiliation at not having deserved her trust.

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.

Never be glad that another man has died. Not ever. [...] It never ends. Never... ever... be glad to kill.

The man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.

God says, Turn the other cheek. So there's no way I could play in a man's game.

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes.

The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .