Quotes about Forgiveness

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Any complaints, any grumblings, any disputings or murmurings, any anxieties, any worries, any resentments or anything that hints of a raging torrent of bitterness--these are the things God calls me to die to daily.

Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.

Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon." "I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.

Let us pray to remain in ignorance of the faults of those we like. Let us pray it as sincerely as we pray that they shall remain in ignorance of ours.

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.

As Christians we need to be patient, understanding, and kind. Instead of going on the attack, we can ask genuine questions. Instead of bristling when our narrative is summarily dismissed, we can carefully explain our way of seeing things. And when we are wrong, we won't be afraid to say so.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

You have told me, O God, to believe in hell. But you have forbidden me to think...of any man as damned