Quotes on Forgiveness

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God's forgiveness gives us a fresh start.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

"If a man finds it very hard to forgive injuries, let him look at a Crucifix, and think that Christ shed all His Blood for him, and not only forgave His enemies, but even prayed His Heavenly Father to forgive them also. Let him remember that when he says the Pater Noster, every day, instead of asking pardon for his sins, he is calling down vengeance on himself."

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are.

This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

The sin_x000D_ _x000D_ That neither God nor man can well forgive.

I pardon him, as God shall pardon me.

Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence.

What if this cursed hand_x000D_ _x000D_ Were thicker than itself with brother's blood_x000D_ _x000D_ Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves_x000D_ _x000D_ To wash it white as snow?

Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.