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Quotes About Forgiveness

Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
There is no use getting angry at something that has already happened.All you can do is your best to check it doesn't happen again.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I say, drop all your defenses. Anyone can make a mistake — even you. Do not defend your mistakes; just accept them and move on. When you are totally defenseless, that is when you will be completely strong.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If someone blames you directly, do not believe it. Just know that they are taking away your bad karma and let it
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Arjava [sincerity] is the second thing. There are people who can go on forgiving themselves but they are not sincere. So they can be where they are and continue doing the same thing. Forget the past. 'Yes, I did something wrong, I am also preparing to do something wrong today and I'll continue with something tomorrow.' There's
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.
~ St Francis of Assisi
Love the sinner and hate the sin.
~ St. Augustine
Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.
~ St. Augustine
For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.
~ St. Augustine
And the good delight to hear of the past evils of such as are now freed from them, not because they are evils, but because they have been and are not.
~ St. Augustine
Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin in him Thou madest not.
~ St. Augustine
Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: Forgive us our debts, because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother. ... Even he that does not as yet believe in Christ ... love him, and love him with fraternal love. He is not yet thy brother, but love him precisely that he may be thy brother.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say as we forgive our debtors. When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
~ St. Francis Of Assisi
Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.
~ St. Francis Of Assisi
O Divine Master, grant that I may not seek to be consoled, as to console. To be understood, as to understand. To be loved, as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
~ St. Francis Of Assisi
I have sinned against my brother the ass.
~ St. Francis Of Assisi
And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.
~ St. Thérèse de Lisieux
I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbours' defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
~ St. Thérèse de Lisieux
I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.
~ St. Thérèse of Lisieux
God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.
~ St. Thomas Aquinas
We all apologize, or fail to, in our own ways.
~ Stacy Schiff