Forgiveness Quotes - Page 22

• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, War, Kissing

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• If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.

  John Climacus

  Running, Spiritual, Memories

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• I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

  William Brewster

  Heart, Godly, Discipline

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• That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Hate, Forgiving

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• Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

  Hannah More

  Forgiving, Expenses, How To Forgive

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.639

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• Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Journey, Needs, Reassurance

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• The essence of the miracle of forgiveness is that it brings peace to the previously anxious, restless, frustrated, perhaps tormented soul.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Essence, Miracle, Soul

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Sin, Righteous

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• She eventually forgave him, because she understood him.

  Whitney Otto

  Understood

  Whitney Otto (2015). “How to Make an American Quilt”, p.120, Ballantine Books

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• Don't ever say you are sorry for "being caught in the moment". Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.

  Buffalo Bill

  Im Sorry, Moments, Caught

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• Forgiveness is as wide as repentance.

  Marion G. Romney

  Repentance, Wide

  Marion G. Romney (1971). “Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney”

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• Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

  Marcus Eremita

  Prayer, Forgiving, Mercy

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• He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.

  Marcus Eremita

  Humility, Wickedness, Sin

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• We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.

  Bree Despain

  People, Forgiving, Needs

  Bree Despain (2009). “The Dark Divine”, p.284, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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• God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Forgiving, God Forgives

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• I discovered that forgiveness is a path to freedom.

  Mariah Nelson

  Path

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• If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you will seek it with sincerity and cultivate it, it will come. And even though he whom you have forgiven continues to pursue and threaten you, you will know you have done what you could to effect a reconciliation. There will come into your heart a peace otherwise unattainable.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Heart, Expression, Forgiving

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• If you, through poor judgment, were to cover your shoes with mud, would you leave them that way? Of course not. You would cleanse and restore them. Would you then gather the residue of mud and place it in an envelope to show others the mistake that you made? No. Neither should you continue to relive forgiven sin. Every time such thoughts come into your mind, turn your heart in gratitude to the Savior, who gave His life that we, through faith in Him and obedience to His teachings, can overcome transgression and conquer its depressing influence in our lives.

  Richard G. Scott

  Gratitude, Depressing, Mistake

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• Sometimes we can take offense so easily. On other occasions we are too stubborn to accept a sincere apology. Who will subordinate ego, pride, and hurt-then step forward with 'I am truly sorry! Let's be as we once were: friends. Let's not pass to future generations the grievances, the anger of our time'? Let's remove any hidden wedges that can do nothing but destroy.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Hurt, Sorry, Pride

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• When the doctrine of repentance is fully understood then it is seen that repentance is all that ever needs to be taught for repentance means not only to stop doing those things which are wrong but to start doing those things which are right.

  Daniel H. Ludlow

  Mean, Doctrine, Needs

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• When we stray from His presence, He longs for you to come back. He weeps that you are missing out on His love, protection and provision. He throws His arms open, runs toward you, gathers you up, and welcomes you home.

  Charles Stanley

  Running, Home, Missing

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• These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

  John Milton

  Eye, Evil, Despair

  John Milton (1848). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Critical Remarks on His Genius and Writings”, p.131

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• I could see peace instead of this.

  Confucius

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• To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

  Seneca the Younger

  Forgiving, Inhuman

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