Quotes about Forgiveness

People will treat you unkindly at times. Forgive them always.

Don't try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

They taught us always to respect other peoples: every man is made in the image of God, even if he has a tendency to forget it.

Healing begins with you're saying these simple words to your adversary, yes, to your enemy: "You're hurting, I know. I'm hurting, too. Let's try to find a way".

A forgiving God would be the noblest work of man. We accepted as proven that each stage of civilization creates its own God, and that as man ascends and becomes better his conception of the Unknown likewise improves. Thereafter we all became less theological, but I am sure more truly religious.

It is necessary to understand that it is not sin that humbles most, but grace.

As bread is the first need of the body, so forgiveness for the soul.

We often do not yield ourselves to God in obedience to His commandment to love our fellow men with Christ's love. What if that love should flow out to all around, even to those who hate us? This would require much grace and cost us time and trouble and serious prayer.