Quotes about Forgiveness
The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left
- Max Lucado
These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.
- John Milton
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
- Frederick Buechner
Consequences don't just go away. They aren't suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.
- Tracie Peterson
The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.
- Joyce Meyer
In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.
- JI Packer
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
God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.
- Abraham Lincoln
If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
- Robert Frost
Forgiveness is not about forgetting, Mack. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
- William Paul Young
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