Quotes about Forgiveness
If you know you have been forgiven, you will forgive and reconcile with others.
- Edward Welch
Deep change is rarely a matter of knowledge. It is a matter of repentance.
- Edward Welch
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
- Albert Camus
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
- Aldous Huxley
You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
- Drew Barrymore
I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.
- St. Jerome
Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame.
- Mother Angelica
We cannot serve the Lord if we don't have a heart of forgiveness.
- Monty Williams
There is nothing we've done that can't be wiped clean by Christ.
- Terri Blackstock
The church must always show compassion, always.
- Rick Warren
When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.
- Henepola Gunaratana