Forgiveness – Zitate

To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

— Archbishop Secker

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

— E. H. Chapin

  ​ By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in human nature; by a strong sense of God's love; by long and disciplined realization of the atoning love of Christ; only thus can we get a free, manly, large, princely spirit of forgiveness.

— F. W. Robertson

In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross—with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved—injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.

— E. L. Magoon

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.

— Tillotson

For still in mutual sufferance lies      The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that never knows      The sweetness of forgiving.

— J. G. Whittier