Quotes about Empathy
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
- Thomas a Kempis
Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
- Desmond Tutu
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.
- Marianne Williamson
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
- St. Augustine
I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.
- Catherine Marshall
I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.
- Joyce Meyer
Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.
- Mark Driscoll
The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.
- Louise Hay
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.
- Timothy Keller