Best 2898 quotes in «forgiveness quotes» category

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

Kids need love the most when they're acting most unlovable.

Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

Lack of forgiveness of others breeds lack of self-forgiveness.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive your spouse for what they said. At the start of the day, let go of the disappointments, the set backs from yesterday. Start every morning fresh and new. God did not create you to carry around all that baggage. Let it go and move forward in the life of blessing He has in store for you!

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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

Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

Men are less forgiving than women.

My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in spite of my ugly deeds

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

My great idea is that we must forgive the Pope. First of all, he needs it more than anyone else. Besides, it is the only way of placing oneself above him.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

Nobody`s Perfect

No matter what your past has been, your future is spotless.

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.

None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate.

Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.

Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or is intent upon committing it.

One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.