Forgiven Quotes

You’re sorry? I damn near drank myself to death, I could barely get out of bed, I shattered my phone into a million pieces on New Year’s Eve to keep from calling you … and you’re sorry?”I bit my lip and nodded, ashamed. I had no idea what he’d been through, and hearing his say the words made sharp pain twist inside my chest. “I’m so … so sorry.”“You’re forgiven,” he said with a grin. “Don’t ever do it again.”“I won’t. I promise.”He flashed his dimple and shook his head. “I fucking love you.

~ Jamie Mcguire

It was like a dream you might have after death in which lost people came back to life, your friends loved you again no matter what you had done, and your failures were unaccountably forgiven.

~ Ann Brashares

But if you forgive someone for something they did to you, it doesn’t mean you agree with what they did or believe it was right. Forgiving that person means you have chosen not to dwell on the matter anymore; you have moved on with your life.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

I forgive you, but I won’t forget what you did…not in some threatening, I don’t really forgive you kind of way… but just because what you did was shitty and really hurt me and I can’t imagine it suddenly disappearing from my memory. In a way, it’s even cooler that I’ll remember that shitty thing you did to me, and you’ll remember that shitty thing I did to you. That means we didn’t need to forget that we hurt each other in order to love each other still. We figured out a way to forgive each other, for real, and still be friends. How beautiful, yes? Let’s never forget that, either.

~ Scott Stabile

This is a day of celebration!Today, we are divorcing the pastand marrying the present.Dance,and you will find Godin every room.Today, we are divorcing resentmentand marrying forgiveness.Sing,and God will find you in every tune.Today, we are divorcing indifferenceand marrying love.Drink, and play that tambourine against your thighs.We have so much celebrating to do!

~ Kamand Kojouri

Forgiveness brings us closer to those who have hurt us and helps them to experience the forgiveness and love of Jesus through us who forgives them.

~ Omoakhuana Anthonia

Forgiveness is all about love. Where love abounds, there forgiveness will not tarry

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

If someone can't forgive, it's because he does not love

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Without the sun, there is no shadow; without the Son, there is only shadow.

~ Anthony Liccione

Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.

~ Bill Willingham

When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.

~ Stephen Richards

When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.

~ Stephen Richards

You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.

~ Stephen Richards

The heart is where the journey of forgiveness begins.

~ Stephen Richards

Locking ourselves in the situation where we wish for sympathy and want to be looked at as the aggrieved party normally makes us powerless.

~ Stephen Richards

The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.

~ Stephen Richards

The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way.

~ Stephen Richards

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.

~ Stephen Richards

Forgiveness does not change the past, that’s for sure, but it does change the future.

~ Stephen Richards

The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.

~ Stephen Richards

The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.

~ Stephen Richards

When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.

~ Stephen Richards

In an unforgiving world, chaos rules.

~ Stephen Richards

When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.

~ Stephen Richards

When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.

~ Stephen Richards

Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word ‘give’ is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein.

~ Stephen Richards

The same zeal and guts with which you were persistent not to forgive is the same zeal and enthusiasm with which you should be able to open up a new relationship with your partner, loved one or friend, one that is founded on commitment and dedication.

~ Stephen Richards

Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.

~ Stephen Richards

Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.

~ Stephen Richards

We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!

~ Stephen Richards

Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.

~ Stephen Richards

Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions.

~ Stephen Richards

Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.

~ Stephen Richards

The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.

~ Stephen Richards

Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.

~ Stephen Richards

In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.

~ Stephen Richards

The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.

~ Stephen Richards

Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.

~ Stephen Richards

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.

~ Stephen Richards

Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.

~ Stephen Richards