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

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

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

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

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.

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.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Saints need sinners.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

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.

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.

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

Forgotten is forgiven.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

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

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

Bad men are full of repentance.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

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.

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

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.

You pity the fool because you don’t want to beat up a fool! You know, pity is between sorry and mercy. See, if you pity him, you know, you won’t have to beat him up. So that’s why I say fools, you gotta give another chance because they don’t know no better. That’s why I pity them!

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

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

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.‘

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

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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.

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.‘

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

I never hold a grudge.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

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

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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.

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

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

Our God is a forgiving God.

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

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.