Quotes about Forgiveness
A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.
— Oscar Wilde
I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
— Ralph Abernathy
The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.
— Randy Alcorn
I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
— John Milton
God sacrifices himself for man and puts himself where only man deserves to be.
— John Stott
When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment.
— Max Lucado
Model the qualities that you want your children to show to each other.
— Elizabeth George
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.
— Washington Irving
Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience...to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness.
— Pope Francis
Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.
— Zig Ziglar