Quotes About Forgiveness

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.

The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

Never love unless you can bear with all the faults of man!

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.

Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

Far from rejecting such a good man as you, He never even abandons a wicked man who hopes for His mercy.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.