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Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Hate is only conquered by love.
~ Gautama Buddha
Teach love, for that is what you are.
~ George Eliot
For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.
~ George MacDonald
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
~ George McGovern
... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.
~ George Sand
Try finding love, rather than finding fault.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Love is the only force that can erase the differences between people or bridge the chasms of bitterness.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Love is realizing that they are going to make mistakes but knowing you can't hold it against them.
~ Haley Pullos
Love is being understanding and compassionate.
~ Haley Pullos
As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
Let Love step down, open the clasped hands, forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and soul.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Everyone has some dysfunction in their families. They have to deal with it. You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.
~ Hillary Clinton
People love to hear the mistakes you've made.
~ Holly Near
Forgiveness. It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place.
~ Ian Gardner
I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.
~ Ira Kaplan
He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.
~ Isabel Allende
You never lose the love of God. Guilt is the warning that temporarily you are out of touch.
~ Jack Dominian
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
~ Jack Kornfield
Sometimes...you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Just because some of us make a mistake in love once doesn't mean we're doomed to repeat it.
~ Jeaniene Frost
She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.
~ Jenna Blum
In America, we love to give people second chances too - as long as you admit you were wrong and come back and do it the right way.
~ Jim Courier