Forgiveness Quotes

Sometimes you have to fight for the past and sometimes you have to let go.

~ Shannon Mullen

Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.

~ Sharon Salzberg

We cannot simply forgive and forget, nor should we.

~ Sharon Salzberg

To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.

~ Sharon Salzberg

There is strength in forgiveness.

~ Ellen Hopkins

Love always doesn't come across as bad, but it always has two sides.

~ Auliq Ice

In relationships, everyone makes mistakes. If you are forgiven for yours, don't take it for granted.

~ Carlos Wallace

To be forgiven is to be loved

~ Brené Brown

Your soul finds ego in fear. Your mind finds ache in pain but your heart finds love when free.

~ Kemi Sogunle

But God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Ask for God's grace, He freely gives, whoever ask.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a greater grace for every great sin.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Just as you are, come to Christ Jesus, He will change you, to what you ought to be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Is there any friendship, without forgiveness?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To be able to open the heart again after betrayal, injury, or loss is a precious act. It requires both courage and compassion. It requires a new movement to emerge from the depths of grief. Forgiveness is one of the most certain paths to restoration, and it is also one of the most difficult. However, it is an attempt to return to wholeness, once again, by letting go and freeing myself from the tight clutch and heavy burden of caution, anger, resentment, and the desire for revenge and punishment. In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself.

~ Sharon Weil

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

~ L.m. Montgomery

All of us suffer in life, but the ones who bring the suffering find the greatest pain. The wounds we inflict upon others are the most painful for us.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

If you notice the day we are judging and looking down on ourselves that day we are very edgy and judging others too. Our mood reflects what we feel inside. Judgment brings so much negativity and blocks our energy. We are not able to give our 100% to anything whether work or relationship. On the other hand self compassion brings harmony and has ripple effect as all love begins with love within. So try consciously to practice self love and forgiveness daily. It will bring a lot of peace into your life.

~ Latika Teotia

Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive.

~ Brittany Burgunder

Forgiveness is the subjective and fertile ground the acorn falls upon when gifted to ourselves and others.

~ Gillian Duce

Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.

~ Temitope Ibrahim

Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

~ Shannon L. Alder

A while ago?” Anaxantis asked. “Yes, he raped me a while ago. Exactly nine months and two days ago. What's that? Nine months or nine minutes. It's the same. And it is in the past, you say? Then why is it still happening, every day, every time I close my eyes? Every time I hear someone behind me, and I don't know who it is? How is it that I get an almost irresistible urge to kill anyone who happens to touch me unexpectedly? Tell me, Hemarchidas, how do I forgive, let alone forget, something that is still happening, that keeps happening over and over? How? How do I do that?

~ Andrew Ashling

Loving self and others is an every second of every day of every week, of every month, of every year gift that should not be taken for granted or withdrawn for petty arguments and misunderstandings. No one knows the day nor the hour that we or a loved one will meet our expiration here on this earth. Time to make time to heal, amend and/or forgive broken relationships, to live your dreams without regret and love like there is no tomorrow for when tomorrow is no longer there...memories will be great and consciences will be clear.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

In the interests of friendship, I hope you’ll forgive me what I’m about to do.”“Forgive you wha—”My sentence was cut off as he clamped his mouth over mine, kissing me deeply....“Ready to make a scene?”He raised an eyebrow. “Do I have a choice?”“Not really. To quote something someone said to me recently, in the interests of friendship, I hope you’ll forgive what I’m about to do.” I drew back my hand and slapped him across the face. The smack of flesh striking flesh echoed through the hall. Conversations stopped as people whipped around to stare at us. Raising my voice to something just below a shout, I snarled, “You asshole!

~ Seanan Mcguire

I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out of the tangle because everything is tangled up…it’s much easier to keep up the fight between good and evil, holy and profane, us and them. But as awareness grows, these opposites begin to calm down in their clashes, and something else emerges- a world you feel at home in.

~ Deepak Chopra

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

~ Richard Rohr

I've never heard anyone say I wish I hadn't forgiven.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

We need repentance. You see, repentance is not only going to a priest and confessing. We must free ourselves from the obsession of thoughts. We fall many times during our life, and it is absolutely necessary to reveal everything [in Confession] to a priest who is a witness to our repentance.Repentance is the renewal of life. This means we must free ourselves from all our negative traits and turn toward absolute good. No sin is unforgivable except the sin of unrepentance.

~ Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

Take, this day, my handand promise to absolvewhat my forefathers and I didto you and your kin.

~ Gloria D. Gonsalves

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

Nature is one of the most underutilized treasures in life. It has the power to unburden hearts and reconnect to that inner place of peace.

~ Janice Anderson

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts and actions--what will you reflect?

~ Janice Anderson

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.

~ Gerald G. Jampolsky

I don’t have to let anyone use me. I don’t have to bend the truth. Even if I’m not ready to forgive just yet, I don’t have to be tied to my scars, to the people who wounded me, or to the anger and fear that grew out of it. I can be myself and be honest and not be afraid. Not of getting hurt or of hurting others.

~ Ryan Galloway

Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God. Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God? Think only of repentance, continual repentance, but dismiss fear altogether. Believe that God loves you as you cannot conceive; that He loves you with your sin, in your sin. It has been said of old that over one repentant sinner there is more joy in heaven than over ten righteous men. Go, and fear not. Be not bitter against men. Be not angry if you are wronged. Forgive the dead man in your heart what wrong he did you. Be reconciled with him in truth. If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner, even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and expiate not only your own sins but the sins of others.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.

~ Brené Brown

Practice fear and you will fail. Practice love and success will prevail.

~ Walter E. Jacobson