Quotes about Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.
- Hillary Clinton
The essence of justice is mercy.
- Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
- Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
- Elbert Hubbard
Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
- Elbert Hubbard
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
- Elbert Hubbard
In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we've done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can't.
- Desmond Tutu
To really find God is to search for him not only in ourselves, not only in our loved ones, not only in our neighbors, not only in the strangers that we encounter, but ultimately in our enemies as well.
- Arianna Huffington
Bad men are full of repentance.
- Aristotle
Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.
- Anne Graham Lotz
All human beings are inherently good, so when someone goes off the rails, there must be some mitigating factor - he was bullied, was a loner, had an abusive father, or a domineering mother, etc.
- Ray Comfort
Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
- Frederick Buechner