Forgiven Quotes

Other people may well not find it relevant that you have forgiven yourself, but you need to know that it is not for them anyway. Everything at the moment is wholly about you.

~ Stephen Richards

A broken and mended relationship turns out to be stronger than one that has never been broken, almost like how bones can become even stronger once broken and then healed.

~ Stephen Richards

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done.

~ Stephen Richards

You are simply naturally inclined to make mistakes just as everyone else is, whether male or female, black or white, young or old. These mistakes are your school of learning, therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.

~ Stephen Richards

Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.

~ Stephen Richards

If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.

~ Stephen Richards

All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.

~ Stephen Richards

Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, “Today I am going to be rich,” does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best.

~ Stephen Richards

The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.

~ Stephen Richards

If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.

~ Stephen Richards

Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.

~ Stephen Richards

The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.

~ Stephen Richards

Do not be deceived that you are weak because you have forgiven; instead be rest assured that you are now showing great strength - after all, forgiving is one of the most difficult things to do.

~ Stephen Richards

Remember, forgiveness is not a millstone but a milestone!

~ Stephen Richards

The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player.

~ Stephen Richards

The world is full of victims; don’t add to the growing culture of “I’ve a story to tell”, well not unless it’s a story to help others overcome situations or as a warning.

~ Stephen Richards

Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.

~ Stephen Richards

Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It’s amazing what ‘sleeping on it’ can do. A new day sees a new beginning.

~ Stephen Richards

This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.

~ Stephen Richards

We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.

~ Stephen Richards

You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!

~ Stephen Richards

Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!

~ Stephen Richards

The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.

~ Stephen Richards

What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense.

~ Stephen Richards

You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.

~ Stephen Richards

The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

~ Stephen Richards

As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?

~ Stephen Richards

The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.

~ Stephen Richards

Due to the need to co-exist with these inhuman and inconsiderate people, we will obviously be disturbed by their acts; something which if we look at closely actually means that we too could be affecting some other people negatively every once in a while.

~ Stephen Richards

One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.

~ Stephen Richards

By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU.

~ Stephen Richards

I have saved by grace. My sins are forgiven. This is my greatest gratitude.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a thing I do not love. There is not a person I have not forgiven. I feel a universe of love. I feel a universe of light. Tonight, I am with old friends and we are returning home. The moon is our witness.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The past, has been erased; the present, forgiven; and the future, redeemed.

~ Anthony Liccione

To Graduate from the School of Life you need to have met the following criteria: Found your life purpose, know how the egoic mind operates, detached yourself from the egoic mind, lived in essence, been in essence in relationships, overcame duality, trusted life, became awake, reprogrammed beliefs, handled anger, forgiven everyone, loved yourself, dealt with fears, overcome anger you had with God/you, cleared your emotional complexes & negativity, let go of the past, dealt with difficult relationships and mastered loving all creations of the universe.

~ Marina G. Roussou

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that.

~ Margaret Way

Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on.

~ Charles F. Glassman

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done. When you get to that time that is now, make a full and total forgiveness of your entire life and smile at the bouquet in your hands because it truly is beautiful.

~ Stephen Richards

As it peaks over the horizon, does not a sunrise whisper the opportunity to try again. And if the day passes and our efforts were stunted by the bane of our insecurities or blunted by the challenges of life, does not a sunset invite us to rest before it whispers the same message the next morning?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is no sin, no crime, no evil, God cannot forgive

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana