Forgiveness Quotes

There must be more to life than having everything.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.

Hatred is one long wait.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

To forgive is human, to forget divine.

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.

It’s hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.

Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

Jesus said...i'm the only way to permanent peace, im the only way to permanent joy, im the only way to eternal life, im the only way to forgiveness of sin, im the only way to the Father.

How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness.

Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.