Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Jesus paid a tremendous price for us so we could have abundant life. He willingly took all of our sin on Himself and gave His life on the cross so we could be forgiven and have new life in Him.

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

Saints need sinners.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You’re a traitor.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

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. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

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

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

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.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

Our God is a forgiving God.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

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

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

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

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

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

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord’s mercy motivates us to do better.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.