Quotes About Forgiveness

My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

I am not vindictive, but very forgiving. Despite being wronged, I never took revenge on anyone.

He bore no grudge against those he had wronged.

Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

The Way Of The Fist' is not quite a Shakespearian depiction of anger and revenge. This song was more my way of releasing all the pent up aggression I felt against some people who wronged me beyond the point of any kind of forgiveness or mercy.

I have forgiven and forgotten all those who wronged me.

I believe the Israelis have been wronged, but they also have a lot to apologize for. And I believe the Palestinians have been wronged, but they have a lot to apologize for, as well.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

All I know is two wrongs do not make a right. And nobody's perfect; ain't nobody right all the time.

We will right the wrongs of the past, and we will do everything in our power to protect the dignity of every Mississippi life.

I always like to remind myself that the most honorable people of all are not those who never make mistakes, but those who admit to them when they do and then move on and do their best to right the wrongs they have made.

I was a cheap criminal; I did many, many wrongs. I admit that. Of course, if I could tell each person I'm sorry, I would.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

I wrote an apology for the harm I'd caused, but I also knew that an apology could never undo any of it.

Mike Campbell and Don Henley and I wrote 'The Heart of the Matter,' which was a huge hit for Don.

I have made the most profound apology in front of the Truth Commission and on other occasions about the injustices which were wrought by apartheid.

Yeah, I have animosity, a chip on my shoulder. But I love, too.

I think I made a mistake once... yeah... it was only once.

I never dwell on what happened. You can't change it. Move forward. Don't waste your energy on being angry at something that somebody did six months ago or a year ago. It's over. Done. Move forward.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.