Forgiveness Quotes

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.