Quotes about Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a feeling.
- Deepak Chopra
There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness.
- Deepak Chopra
To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.
- Elton John
I believe in grace because I've seen it and peace because I've felt it and forgiveness because I've needed it.
- George W. Bush
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
- Hannah More
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ah! Happy they whose hearts can breakAnd peace of pardon win!How else may man make straight his pathAnd cleanse his soul from sin?How else but through a broken heartMay the Lord Christ enter in?
- Oscar Wilde
For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.
- St. John Chrysostom
When anyone arouses my anger, I will immediately pray for them and regain my peace of soul.
- Mother Angelica
The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
- Peter Kreeft