Forgiveness Quotes

Forgiveness is the virtue of Brave.

When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.

Time, and the grand gesture of forgiveness, helps to heal old wounds.

There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.

You should forgive your enemies and if you haven't any, just forgive a few of your friends.

Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.

But we can't go back. We can only go forward.

Lord help my poor soul.

You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Long only for what you have.

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.

Few love what they may have.

You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

Courage and clemency are equal virtues.

Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.

Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon.

I could see peace instead of this.

Jesus lived a life of peace, love, kindness and forgiveness, during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, may we all do our best to follow his example.

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

Forgive what you can't excuse.

I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.

If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us.

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

Forgiveness is simply a decision to cancel a debt.

God will pardon: That's His business.

Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.

It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom

The essence of forgiveness is seeing our humanness and seeing that we all have our limitations and follies.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.

Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.

Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.

So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells.

Grace means forgiveness-period.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.

No future without forgiveness.

The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.

If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.