Quotes about Forgiveness
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.
— Madeleine L'Engle
William Langland, writing around 1400, said, 'And all the wickedness in the world that man might work or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal in the sea.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We want nothing from you that you do without grace," Mrs Whatsit said, "or that you do without understanding.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It's a stage we all go through; it takes a certain amount of living to strike the strange balance between the two errors either of regarding ourselves as unforgivable or as not needing forgiveness.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Expand my love, Lord, so I can help to bear the pain, help your love move my love into the tired prostitute with false eyelashes and bunioned feet, the corrupt policeman with his hand open for graft, the addict, the derelict, the woman in the mink coat and discontented mouth, the high school girl with heavy books and frightened eyes. Help me through these scandalous particulars to understand your love. Help me to pray.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Until bitterness ans self-pity and anger are gone... the belief was that healing was not possible until the spirit was cleansed.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need
— Madeleine L'Engle
But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Mercy. It didn't mean that everything was okay, could or should be condoned. But we can't move out of ourselves and our own self-justifications until we look in the mirror and know, yes, I, too, could have done this. Or worse. My anger at my mother. At Mama for telling me things I don't want to know.
— Madeleine L'Engle
What we must look for is God's mercy. God's mercy shown through our own.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Only a human being can say I'm sorry. Forgive me. This is part of our particularity. It is part of what makes us capable of tears, capable of laughter.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Love does not judge.
— Madeleine L'Engle