forgiveness Quotes

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

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

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.