Quotes about Forgiveness

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

A dead man cannot forgive sins. The gospel, as the present forgiveness of sins, assumes the new, divine, eschatological life of the crucified Christ, and is itself the `Spirit' and the present `power of the resurrection'. Thus according to Paul's understanding, in the 'word of the cross' the crucified Christ himself speaks.

We are all sorry when we are discovered. Then we are very sorry.It's not the question if we're sorry. The question is did we draw a lesson? The question is: what are we going to do now, when we're sorry?

In my own terms, I am being punished for what happened... I am sunk into a state of disgrace from which it will not be easy to lift myself. It is not a punishment I have refused. I do not murmur against it. On the contrary, I am living it out from day to day, trying to accept disgrace as my state of being. Is it enough for God, do you think, that I live in disgrace without term?

The question is not, are we sorry? The question is, what lesson have we learned? The question is what are we going to do now that we are sorry?

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

Ours is a nation that does not seek revenge.