Quotes about Forgiveness
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.
— Wayne Dyer
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
— St. Augustine
The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.
— Max Lucado
Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
— St. Augustine
Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.
— Joyce Meyer
Breathe a word of prayer, not anger.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is easier to forgive yourself of a thousand misdeeds than to forgive your enemy of one.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you ask God for love, He may give you someone to forgive.If you ask God for patience, He may give you someone to bear.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Welcome the righteous, avoid the wicked, and yet open both arms to the repentant.Whoever receives them receives God.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The people of God do not serve Him in order to be forgiven but because we are forgiven.
— Donald Whitney
Love your enemies." That is the hardest saying of all. Please, Father in heaven who made me, take away my heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh to love my enemy. It is a terrible thought — "we love God as much as the one we love the least.
— Dorothy Day
Meditation on the bus. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it suddenly came to me to remember my own offenses, just as heinous as those of others. If I concern myself with my own sins and lament them, if I remember my own failures and lapses, I will not be resentful of others. This was most cheering and lifted the load of gloom from my mind. It makes one unhappy to judge people and happy to love them.
— Dorothy Day