Christian Forgiveness Quotes

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

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

The weak can never forgive.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.