Quotes About Forgiveness

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

But what an mortal man do to secure his own salvation?" Mortal man can do just what God bids him do. Be can repent and believe. He can arise and follow Christ as Matthew did.

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.

The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.

It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it can never remit.

I didn't want to send a man to hell on an empty stomach.

It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.

If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.

May the good God pardon all good men.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.