Quotes about Forgiveness

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Pope Francis tells us who he is by pointing to Caravaggio's St. Matthew: 'Here, this is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze.' He is telling us that he has experienced the same rush of speechless wonder and graced love Caravaggio depicts in his painting.

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, "I was wrong, I'm sorry." And we also need to say, "That's all right, I love you."

Marriage can either be a classroom where people become wiser and better, or a prison where people become resentful; and bitter.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.