Quotes about Forgiveness

Love your friends with your eyes closed, but love your enemies with both eyes open.

They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.

Instead of hating someone, pray for that person. Don't forget to pray for yourself as well, that you may learn how to let go and forgive.

Love's light conquers hate's darkness.

Look for something good in each person, even if for some people you have to look a little harder.

I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.

The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.

If God should show mercy only to such as deserve it, he must show mercy to none.

Our sins should humble us, but they must not discourage us from coming to Christ.

Either sin must drown in the tears of repentance—or the soul must burn in hell.