Quotes About Forgiveness

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

In the same way that I cannot be perfect and need grace for my mistakes, I also need to give my kids grace. I am constantly learning to be patient with them, understanding that they won't do everything right all the time, while still holding them to a high standard, as their heavenly father does.

When you repent and operate on God's standards, now you have restoration and reconciliation.

The best thing they've told me is to be forgiving of yourself as a mother. I think you go into it, and you want to hold yourself to the highest standards, and you want to be perfect. That's not possible. You make mistakes and learn.

I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

I wouldn't want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

Behold not with anger the sins of man, but forgive and cleanse.

Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.

I thank God that the gospel is to be preached to every creature. There is no man so far gone, but the grace of God can reach him; no man so desperate or black, but He can forgive him.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

God's love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.

Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.