Quotes about Forgiveness

Prodigals are not limited in gender, race, age or color. They do have one thing in common: They have left home, and they are missed.

the truth can be quickly received, or received at all, only by the sinner who knows and admits that he is guilty of having sinned much.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Love all people, including those who do wrong. They may be acting unintentionally, out of ignorance. Even if they are acting intentionally, they can't harm you—that is, they can't make you a worse person than before. Only you can harm yourself, by fanning the flames of hatred and resentment. When someone wrongs you, identify the mistaken ideas that motivated their behavior. Then, instead of being angry, you'll pity them.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

You'll find that none of the people who make you lose your temper has done anything that might affect your mind for the worse; and outside of the mind there's nothing that is truly detrimental or harmful for you… After all, you even had the resources, in the form of your ability to think rationally, to appreciate that he was likely to commit that fault, yet you forgot it and are now surprised that he did exactly that.

Not to contemn any friend's expostulation, though unjust, but to strive to reduce him to his former disposition

Someone despises me. That's their problem. Mine: not to do or say anything despicable. Someone hates me. Their problem. Mine: to be patient and cheerful with everyone, including them. Ready to show them their mistake. Not spitefully, or to show off my own self-control, but in an honest, upright way.

The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.

Not to shrug off a friend's resentment—even unjustified resentment—but try to put things right.

It is peculiar to man to love even those who do wrong. And this happens, if when they do wrong it occurs to thee that they are kinsmen, and that they do wrong through ignorance and unintentionally, and that soon both of you will die; and above all, that the wrong-doer has done thee no harm, for he has not made thy ruling faculty worse than it was before.

We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.