Quotes About Forgiveness

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.

It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.

Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?

I am not a monster, I am just a man.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

Grace means undeserved kindness. It is the gift of God to man the moment he sees he is unworthy of God's favor.

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

There's no man, alive or dead, who's going to fault you for living.

I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Whoever counters the malicious with malice can never be free, but one who feels no maliciousness pacifies those who hate. Hate brings misery to humanity so the wise man knows no hatred.

When the Lord commands that we must forgive all men, that includes forgiving ourselves.

We are not the worst moments of our lives. Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.

The man who pardons easily courts injury.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.

Isn't it amazing that God gives breath to a man who is going to blaspheme Him all day!