Quotes about Forgiveness
Take pains to be patient in bearing the faults and weaknesses of others, for you too have many flaws that others must put up with.
— Thomas a Kempis
Your assignment is to love everyone, accepting all that happens to you.
— Thomas a Kempis
If you should see another openly sin or commit some grievous offense, you should still not think yourself better because of it; for you do not know how long you will be able to stand. We are all weak and frail; but you should regard no one frailer than yourself.
— Thomas a Kempis
O sobie samym niewiele mniema?, a o innych zawsze jak najlepiej - to m?dro??, to jest doskona?o??. Nawet gdyby? widzia?, ?e kto? jawnie grzeszy albo dopuszcza si? zbrodni, nie powiniene? uwa?a? si? za lepszego, bo nie wiesz, jak d?ugo wytrwasz w dobrym. Wszyscy jeste?my u?omni, lecz ty nie s?d?, ?e kto? móg?by by? bardziej u?omny od ciebie.
— Thomas a Kempis
Although I know nothing against myself, yet I am not hereby justified,(4) because if Thy mercy were removed away, in Thy sight should no man living be justified.(5)
— Thomas a Kempis
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
— Thomas Adams
Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is dissolution.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
— Tullian Tchividjian
The Savior of all mankind left the ninety and nine to find the one lost. That one who was lost need not have become lost.
— Gordon Hinckley