Quotes about Forgiveness
Not Forgive us for our sins but Smite us for our iniquities should be the prayer of man to a most just God.
- Oscar Wilde
When he [Christ] says 'Forgive your enemies', it is not for the sake of the enemy but for one's own sake that he says so, and because Love is more beautiful than Hate.
- Oscar Wilde
The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.
- Oscar Wilde
When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
- Oscar Wilde
Though your sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them as white as snow.
- Oscar Wilde
Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure, swift penalty along with it. There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
- Oscar Wilde
For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal: And the crimson stain that was of Cain Became Christ's snow-white seal. VI.
- Oscar Wilde
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
- Oscar Wilde
Every Saint has a past. Every Sinner, has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. His
- Oscar Wilde
You can't change your past, but you can change your mind about your past.
- Pamela Redmond Satran
As Dr Johnson said, "God himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?
- Dale Carnegie