Quotes about Forgiveness

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

salvation does not bypass the history and memory of guilt, but rather builds upon and from it.

The Eucharist is our symbol of what it would mean for the Lord's Prayer to be answered fully: God feeding his people through the death and resurrection of Jesus, which establishes that new community of the Spirit in which forgiveness is the common currency.

It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always ready to forgive, totally understanding, unendingly patient, invariably tender and loving, unfailing in every area, anticipating every need, and making more than adequate provision. Such expectations put a man under an impossible strain

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Prodigals are not limited in gender, race, age or color. They do have one thing in common: They have left home, and they are missed.

the truth can be quickly received, or received at all, only by the sinner who knows and admits that he is guilty of having sinned much.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Love all people, including those who do wrong. They may be acting unintentionally, out of ignorance. Even if they are acting intentionally, they can't harm you—that is, they can't make you a worse person than before. Only you can harm yourself, by fanning the flames of hatred and resentment. When someone wrongs you, identify the mistaken ideas that motivated their behavior. Then, instead of being angry, you'll pity them.