Quotes about Forgiveness

Expand my love, Lord, so I can help to bear the pain, help your love move my love into the tired prostitute with false eyelashes and bunioned feet, the corrupt policeman with his hand open for graft, the addict, the derelict, the woman in the mink coat and discontented mouth, the high school girl with heavy books and frightened eyes. Help me through these scandalous particulars to understand your love. Help me to pray.

Until bitterness ans self-pity and anger are gone... the belief was that healing was not possible until the spirit was cleansed.

If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn't need to hate. That's why we still need

But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.

Mercy. It didn't mean that everything was okay, could or should be condoned. But we can't move out of ourselves and our own self-justifications until we look in the mirror and know, yes, I, too, could have done this. Or worse. My anger at my mother. At Mama for telling me things I don't want to know.

What we must look for is God's mercy. God's mercy shown through our own.

Only a human being can say I'm sorry. Forgive me. This is part of our particularity. It is part of what makes us capable of tears, capable of laughter.

Love does not judge.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.