Quotes About Forgiveness

Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

No matter what has happened, always behave as if nothing had happened.

Groan and forget it.

Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?

If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you.

It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error.

Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both.

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.

People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.

Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.

Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease, for we have been not only mentally and physically ill, we have been spiritually sick.

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.

I tell you, there is no such thing as creative hate!

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.