Quotes About Forgiveness

Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience.

God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.

It is commonly said that revenge is sweet, but to a calm and considerate mind, patience and forgiveness are sweeter.

Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.

The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.

There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love.

Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down

My feelings for you are not conditional. I don't judge you. I don't lose patience with you. I don't punish you. I just love you. That's all. Pure and simple.

He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.

Kindness and patience were always called for.

The hundred-year-old man had never let himself be irritated by people, even when there was a good reason to be, and he was not annoyed by the uncouth manner of this youth.

Annihilate the enemy with acts of kindness only you can afford.

Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

1 realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred toward any one.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.