Quotes on Forgiveness

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

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

By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.

The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

There are some facts that will never change. One fact is that you are forgiven. If you are in Christ, when he sees you, your sins are covered-he doesn't see them. He sees you better than you see yourself.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

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.

No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

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

We need Grace and forgiveness.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.