Forgiveness Quotes

I feel so sorry that many Christians live in bondage even though Jesus has signed their release form with His own blood.

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

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.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.

We don't preach salvation. We preach forgiveness.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit.

What power has love but forgiveness?

The noblest revenge is to forgive

There is power in forgiveness.

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!

The energy of hatred won't get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness.

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring with it forgetfulness; at least not for me.

One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. . . . He is beyond human forgiveness.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

Forgiveness is better than revenge.

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

Some forgive and forget, more forgive and remember, most forgive and remind.

Grace, Mercy and Forgiveness will help a man walk tall. Walk tall!

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.

The task of the Church after Jesus' resurrection and ascension was to proclaim the forgiveness of sins to all nations.

Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

To progress is always to begin always to begin again

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.