Quotes about Forgiveness

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

A disagreement or incident involving someone who's not that important to you, like a guy who cut you off in traffic or a rude cashier, is something that should roll off your shoulders. Save the effort for resolving conflicts with the people you cherish.

The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, He can work through anyone.

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

It is as if he should feel that there is an enemy who could be more destructive to himself than that hatred which excites him against his fellow man; or that he could destroy him whom he hates more completely than he destroys his own soul by this same hatred.

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

And the good delight to hear of the past evils of such as are now freed from them, not because they are evils, but because they have been and are not.