Quotes about Forgiveness
The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.
- Charles Stanley
Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.
- William Paul Young
I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
- Oprah Winfrey
If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.
- Joyce Meyer
Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.
- Mark Driscoll
Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
- CS Lewis
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.
- Louise Hay
The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.
- Timothy Keller
Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Know all and you will pardon all.
- Thomas a Kempis