Forgiveness Quotes

Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.

Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.

Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

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.

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.

There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.

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

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.

The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.

No future without forgiveness.

Forgive yourself first. Let go of past hurts and direct your spirit to goodness and hope by having gratitude.

When everything around you seems bleak, sick and empty - the antidote is forgiveness and love of yourself, and others, plus a dollop of gratitude.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

There's no weakness in forgiveness.

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness.

The sign of sincere love is to forgive wrongs done to us. It was with such love that the Lord loved the world.

To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

Forgiveness is not about the other person or what they did. Forgiveness is for YOU and about YOU.

Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

We are never content with our lot.

(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.

The heart has always the pardoning power.

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

And what if I don't want forgiveness?

Dad is a new person. A person who has learned that forgiveness is better then revenge. Next year, we'll teach him that heart attacks are not like women. You just can't keep having them!

Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you

It is impossible to move on to new states of mind unless you seek the forgiveness of those you've offended.

The only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.

Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him.

Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcæus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.