Quotes about Forgiveness
I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.
— TobyMac
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
— Nelson Mandela
Forgiveness does not mean excusing.
— CS Lewis
An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
— Pope John Paul II
You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.
— Max Lucado
It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.
— Lysa TerKeurst
One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.
— Bishop TD Jakes
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
— CS Lewis
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
— Euripides
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
— Charles Dickens
If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.
— St. Basil