Sophie Swetchine Quotes

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

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

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

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.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

We pardon as long as we love.

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.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.

Forgiveness should go hand-in-hand with love.

Know all and you will pardon all.

Lasting love extends grace. No relationship will make it without grace. The Bible tells us that this is part of love. You're not going to have a relationship unless you have forgiveness, mercy, patience, acceptance, grace. You've got to cut people some slack.

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

Those who understand evil pardon it.

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

Love overlooks a person’s faults. That’s not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.

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.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

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

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

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.