Forgiveness Quotes - Page 22

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; To forgive wrongs darker than death or night; To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent; To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent; This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free; This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love - how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

Cats know not how to pardon.

Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

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

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Good people are always so sure they're right.

Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses. Ignatius If I cast up a confessed, repented, and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to colour my thinking and feed my suspicions, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

But forgiveness must not only be given but received also.

God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

To err is human, to forgive supine.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

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