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

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

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.

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

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.

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.‘

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

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.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

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

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

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

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

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.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

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

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

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

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

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

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

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’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

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.‘

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

Our God is a forgiving God.

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

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

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

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.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

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

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.

Bad men are full of repentance.

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

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

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

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

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

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

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

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

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.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

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.

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

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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