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Quotes About Forgiveness

To forgive is a solemn tussle between love and hate
~ Ymatruz
The most liberating moment, is the moment you finally let go.
~ Ava Harrison, Imperfect Truth
I see your face, your smile and poetry comes flooding out of a heart that can't love you anymore...
~ Yesenia Barkley
Going back to something is harder than you think."I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's heart any more if I tried.
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day
False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.
~ Nadia Boulanger
In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.
~ Penn Jillette
I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.
~ Steven Adler
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
~ Voltaire
Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
~ Laurence Sterne
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
~ George Bernard Shaw
Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression.
~ Raymond Pettibon
It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.
~ Miles J. Stanford
Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.
~ Pope Francis
Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.
~ Matthew Simpson
What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.
~ Voltaire
Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
~ Ramakrishna
The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven.
~ Lew Wallace
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
~ Alexander Pope
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
~ Tacitus
I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.
~ Beth Moore
Nature does not forgive.
~ Hermann E. Ott