Thomas a Kempis Quotes

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

I believe in forgiveness.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

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.

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.

Nothing enables us to forgive like knowing in our hearts that we have been forgiven.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

We need Grace and forgiveness.

I could forgive anybody.

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.

Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into the temptation in which they abide... Do not be angry at anyone and do not hate anyone, neither for their faith, nor for their shameful deeds... Do not foster hatred for the sinner, for we are all guilty... Hate his sins, and pray for him, so that you may be made like unto Christ, who had no dislike for sinners, but prayed for them.

One of Love's qualities--namely, Forgiveness.

Forgiveness should go hand-in-hand with love.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our neighbor. Indeed, even by loving our enemies - at least by trying to learn to love them, and by believing that it is right to do so. With grace this is possible.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Christians are supposed to be the most forgiving people on the face of the Earth.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

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

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.

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

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

I think we're moving toward moments of grace and understanding. And I think these things take time.