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Quotes About Forgiveness

When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.
~ Jimmy Carter
you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?
~ Jodi Picoult
Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift.
~ Joel Osteen
To the extent that we sow love where there is hate and light where there is darkness, each in his or her own walk in life, we can heal, enlighten, and unify.
~ John I. Jenkins
When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But-why did you kick me downstairs?
~ John Philip Kemble
Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.
~ John Ruskin
In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.
~ John Travolta
We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin.
~ Johnny Hunt
We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.
~ Jonathan Tropper
I've always believed that you shouldn't want to mend a broken heart, because that's someone you don't want to forget. Scars can be good.
~ Joseph Fiennes
God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.
~ Joyce Meyer
Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.
~ Joyce Meyer
Kindness manifests in a lot of ways, such as acts of compassion, helpfulness, empathy, forgiveness, and caring. These gestures kindle and ignite feelings of love.
~ Jude Bijou
you can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain
~ Judy Blume
You know, I don't think there's anything truly unforgivable. Not where there's love.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.
~ Kevin Costner
I sing about what a holy fool I am, and that although moments in my life are so cruel and relationships can be so cruel I'm still in love with Judas. I still go back again to those evil things.
~ Lady G
We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.
~ Lena Dunham
In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Commit no act that is contrary to love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .
~ Leo Tolstoy
Dad," I said hesitantly, "I wish you could be there for me even when I'm doing the wrong thing. I wish you could love me even when I'm screwing up.
~ Lisa Kleypas
When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you've already forgiven her for things she hasn't even done yet.
~ Lisa Kleypas