Quotes related to Matthew 6:14
The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.
- Philip Yancey
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.
- Charles Dickens
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.
- Elbert Hubbard
Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.
- Desmond Tutu
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
- Frederick Buechner
Scarcely any law of our Redeemer is more openly transgressed, or more industriously evaded, than that by which he commands his followers to forgive injuries. Samuel
- Lyndon B. Johnson
If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
- Abraham Lincoln
How Forgiveness Helps Us 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 again made clean.
- Dag Hammarskjold
They may not deserve forgiveness but I do.
- Anonymous
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on thee and I'll forgive thy great big one on me.
- Robert Frost
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.
- Mark Twain