Forgiveness Quotes

2479 Forgiveness quotes by 1209 unique authors

There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the… — Philippa Gregory
Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other… — Kurt Vonnegut
When you tame and domesticate the divine it loses its danger and it's power to forgive you, make you happy, or its power to challenge… — John O'Donohue
Love is unconditional acceptance. It is love of parents for child; also the non-possessive love of partners; also the caring love between all people that… — Peter Shepherd
If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us… — Roy Lessin
The Good News is that God's mercy and forgiveness extend to those who repent. Mercy does not mean approving of something that is sinful, but… — Thomas J. Paprocki
This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the… — Thomas J. Paprocki
The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be growing there. It… — Wooden Leg
If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love… — Richard Rohr
Injuries too well remembered cannot heal. — Benjamin Barber
To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between… — Frederick Buechner
Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir. — Kabir
The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance. — Rae Foley
The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative. — Philip Yancey
The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is present in the world. It is in the sacraments, in… — Andrew Greeley
Forgiveness does not absolve you from consequences. — Tom DeLay
The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person… — Chanakya
Forgive thyself little, and others much. — Leighton Meester
Where there are love and generosity, there is joy. Where there are sincerity and sacrifice, there is friendship. Where there are harmony and simplicity, there… — Lawrence Reed
Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self. — Robert Muller
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought… — Gerald R. Ford
[Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it… — Eugene O'Neill
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance. — Frank Knox
Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had. — Unknown Author
Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive." — Norman Vincent Peale

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