Quotes About Forgiveness

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice; and be ye kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you.

Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.

O friends, I pray tonight, Keep not your kisses for my dead cold brow. The way is lonely; let me feel them now. Think gently of me; I am travel-worn, My faltering feet are pierced with many a thorn. Forgive! O hearts estranged, forgive, I plead! When ceaseless bliss is mine I shall not need The tenderness for which I long tonight.

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive.

When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand, so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone, lest we never forget the love of a friend.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship, as ... the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.

Love your friends as if they would some day hate you.

Love your friend with his fault.

We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.

Whoever falls from God's right hand is caught into His left.

He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Ye are fallen from grace.

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him, indeed they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.

The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.

Hatred is settled anger.

Hatred is self-punishment.