Forgiveness Quotes

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

Transition begins in forgiveness.

There is nothing that in the end, cannot be forgiven.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .

Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.

You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

Sick in my soul I tried to face the ordeal of seeking forgiveness. From whom? What God, what Christ? They were myths I once believed and now they were beliefs I felt were myths.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.

an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?

Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.

You cannot learn a lesson of profound forgiveness unless you understand what it is to be wounded and forgive that which has wounded you.

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy.

There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.

Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.

Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.

Forgiveness is essential as the ultimate detox

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

FORGIVE The People That Hurt You. God Will Pay You Back With Double The Joy...Double The Victory.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

The whole purpose of religion is to facilitate love and compassion, patience, tolerance, humility, and forgiveness.

The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.

The covetous man is always poor.

Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.

I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled...and I just wanted to keep being filled.

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.