top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Forgiveness is the final form of love."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Forgiveness quotes
"Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!"
"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
"Tell him everything, it is best. He will forgive you."
"People in the world ask for forgiveness, but [true] 'pratikraman' does not happen by doing that. That is like when people casually say 'sorry' or 'thank you'. There is no significance in that; the significance is of 'alochana-pratikraman-pratyakhyan' (acknowledgement of the mistake, repentance and asking for forgiveness for the mistake, remorse and avowal not to repeat the mistake, respectively)."
"Instead of hating someone, pray for that person. Don't forget to pray for yourself as well, that you may learn how to let go and forgive."
"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
"Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness."
"Forgiveness becomes central to Jesus' teaching, because to receive reality is always to 'bear it, to bear with reality for not meeting all of our needs. To accept reality is to forgive reality for being what it is, almost day by day and sometimes even hour by hour. Such a practice creates patient and humble people.Forgiveness reveals three goodnesses simultaneously. When we forgive, we choose the goodness of the other over their faults, we experience God's goodness flowing through ourselves, and we also experience our own capacity for goodness in a way that almost surprises us. We are finally in touch with a much Higher Power, and we slowly learn how to draw upon this Infinite Source."
"When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge."
"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'"
Explore more quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr
"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."
"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."
"There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war."
"Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity."
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
bottom of page