Quotes about Compassion
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than wounds we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet there is no peace without forgiveness.
— Marianne Williamson
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships
— Josh McDowell
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
— Herman Melville
Tolkien offers sympathy, surrender, friendship and, most of all, forgiveness.
— JRR Tolkien
Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
— CS Lewis
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
— Mark Twain
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
— Elbert Hubbard
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
— Dag Hammarskjold