Laurence Sterne Quotes

'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Only the brave know how to forgive...

We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.

God forgives us... who am I not to forgive?

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving.

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.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

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

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

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

Our lack of forgiveness makes us hate, and our lack of compassion makes us hard-hearted. Pride in our hearts makes us resentful and keeps our memory in a constant whirlwind of passion and self-pity.

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.