Quotes about Forgiveness
You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.
- Mark Driscoll
Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying.
- Matt Chandler
We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
- Marianne Williamson
What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.
- Alphonsus Liguori
May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.
- John Newton
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
- George Eliot
Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.
- Stormie Omartian
If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.
- DA Carson
Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.
- Karl Rahner
Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.
- Dorothy Day
Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.
- Gordon Hinckley
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
- Henri Nouwen