Quotes about Forgiveness
Darkness can only be scattered by light, hatred can only be conquered by love.
— Pope John Paul II
Perfect love means putting up with other peoples shortcomings, feeling no surprise at their weaknesses, finding encouragement even in the slightest evidence of good qualities in them.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Love asks nothing in return, but seeks those who need it. And who needs our love more than those who are consumed with hatred and are utterly devoid of love.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.
— Billy Graham
At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.
— Andy Stanley
God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.
— Martin Luther
You don't need to beat yourself up in order to make God love you. Jesus already took your beating.
— Mark Driscoll
Love says: I've seen the ugly parts of you, and I'm staying.
— Matt Chandler
We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
— Marianne Williamson
What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.
— Alphonsus Liguori
May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.
— John Newton
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
— George Eliot