Quotes About Forgiveness

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

He that has no charity deserves no mercy.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

Cruelty is the only sin.

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear.

No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.

If thine enemy- be hungry, give him bread to eat.

It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Those who have read the book and followed my tumultuous life understand that in many ways my life parallels 'the Count of Monte Cristo' - the only difference is his friends sent him away and he did nothing.

My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and I always had to have turkey on my birthday. My mom was always, 'Let's celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving.' My other siblings got to have special dinners they liked. I resented turkey. For a long time, I hated turkey. I've kind of gotten over it.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.

My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.

But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.

The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.

Turning 50 is making me reflect on my life in a way that's more compassionate and forgiving.

The South is the home of 'an eye for an eye.' 'Turning the other cheek'? The South can't see that.

I believe in the philosophy of turning the other cheek.