Quotes About Forgiveness

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

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

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it can never be shown against the man.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note — torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

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

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

I think that in order to know love one must make a mistake and then correct it.

It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

If you could forget and forgive what happened." He snatched the chalk with nervous, trembling fingers, and breaking it, wrote the initial letters of the following phrase, "I have nothing to forget and to forgive; I have never ceased to love you.

It's wrong, what you say, and I beg you, if you're a good man, to forget what you've said, as I forget it," she said at last. "Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget...

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love; but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Love them that hate you, but you can't love those you hate.

He was not thinking that the Christian law which he had wanted to follow all his life prescribed that he forgive and love his enemies; but the joyful feeling of love and forgiveness of his enemies filled his soul.

The terrible thing is that it's impossible to tear the past out by the roots.

He suddenly felt that the very thing that had once been the source of his suffering had become the source of his spiritual joy, that what had seemed insoluble when he condemned, reproached and hated, became simple and clear when he forgave and loved.

Forgive me not according to my unworthiness, but according to thy loving kindness.

And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.