Quotes About Forgiveness

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

The mercy of God is an all-embracing mercy and it breaks down the barriers that man erects.

When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.

It's your one last chance," said Harry, "it's all you've got left. . . .I've seen what you'll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . .

He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbours.

It is not the self -critical who reveals his humility ( for does not everyone have some how to put up with himself? ). Rather, it is the man who continues to love the person who has criticized him.

Where sin had brought men, love brought the Saviour.

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness.

Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness will help a man walk tall. Walk tall!

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

Shut up. For the rest of this conversation, you don't say anything. When I tell you what you did wrong, you don't say you're sorry, because I already know you're sorry. And when you drive outta here alive, you don't thank me for being alive. And you don't even say goodbye to me.

If she screws up this delivery, that means she's double-crossing God, who may or may not exist, and in any case who is capable of forgiveness. The Mafia definitely exists and hews to a higher standard of obedience.

You told me that Christianity is the religion of peace. Ah, no. It is the faith for forgiveness.

Daniel kept being cruel to Roger, trying to make him go away, but Roger took it as honesty, implying profound friendship.

But as time went by, and I thought about it harder, the real nature of the thing became clear: I had made a mess inside of someone else's soul at a moment when that soul had been open to me. Now it was closed. I was the only one who could clean up the mess; but in order to do this I first had to get in there. And I had no idea how, especially in the case of someone

Are you really going to ask them?!" Sonar exclaimed. "Nah. As an ancient saying has it, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

You don't know how to love without condition.

Father, help me never to place judgment upon another and then only upon the merit therein.

At the critical juncture in all human relationships, there is only one question: What would love do now? No other question is relevant, no other question is meaningful, no other question has any importance to your soul.

Yet there are no victims in the world, and no villains. And neither are you a victim of the choices of others.

My mum,' Thomas Kintry told him, 'when she gets really down, she churns over the past. All the things she thinks she did wrong, all the people she let down. There was this one Christmas when the turkey came out too dry; she still goes on about that bloody turkey, what a miserable Christmas day it was. And this is, like—1993 or something. But she still goes on about it. My nan was the same.

Without knowing it, I had identified a subtle but important part of the healing process. There would be no peace for me, no life for me, until I learned to forgive life for what it had done to me, forgive others for still being alive, and eventually, forgive myself for being alive.