Forgiveness Quotes

You have the power to shape your life the way that you want it to be. Every thought, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're just a dreamer, but everything imagined begins with a dream.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Forgiveness is a powerful cure.

~ Sue Fitzmaurice

She understood now that while it had been wrong to kill Cansrel, it had also been right. The boy with the strange eyes had helped her to see the rightness of it. The boy who'd killed Archer. Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too terrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done.I forgive myself, though Fire. Today, I forgive myself.

~ Kristin Cashore

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words I still love you after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

~ Orson Scott Card

The things that may change our world to make better; smiling, helping, respecting, loving & forgiving.

~ Hussein Abdallah

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

~ Edward Albert

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Our hearts are all prison walls when we hold people captive with chains of unforgiveness.

~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

~ O.a. Battista

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.

~ Edward M. Hallowell

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

~ Criss Jami

Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

~ Ann Voskamp

Real courage is being kind again, after you've felt that your kindness was thrown in your face. To risk it once more, or even twice more takes a special strength.

~ Clare Bell

Be courageous enough to forgive yourself, never forget to be compassionate to yourself.

~ Debasish Mridha

Keep an eye on your responses. Strong responses are about you more than them.

~ Auliq Ice

In order to stay happy, You must learn from your wins and fails and accept all things that come your way as they are.

~ Auliq Ice

The secret is in listening to our own inner voice.

~ Holly Elissa Bruno

At Times I Am A Flower...at times I am a flower ~singularly defined ...

~ Muse

Forgiveness was work, Eduardo told victims' families--but so, then, was love, and deciding what was right, and defending it. Recusing yourself from judgment so you won't be tainted by the aggressor's sin is the same as turning away from empathy so you won't be touched by the victim's pain.

~ Jennifer Dubois

One has to beckon the spiritual warrior inside oneself whenever it is deemed necessary for the task at hand. Courage is the fuel. Healing is the direction. Forgiveness is the balm. Love is the atmosphere Divine.

~ Donna Goddard

Don't let this consume you. Try not to blame me. Don't live in hate. Or grief. Just live.

~ Jackson Lanzing

Talking to you is like talking to someone I’ve never met before. When did you become so competitive? When did you decide that you needed to win all of the time?’He stopped dead in the promenade and grabbed her hand, turning her to face him.He caught her by surprise. She leant her neck backwards slightly in defence.‘When I lost you.

~ Tan Redding

A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace by man is absolute control of all wrongs. Bully-cultures find this: with each and every mistake, another village idiot is shamed into nothingness and mindlessly shut down by the herd. This is a superficial peace made by force and by fear, one in which there is no freedom to breathe; and the reason it is impossible for man to maintain freedom and peace for everyone at the same time. Christ, on the other hand, transforms, instead of controls, by instilling his certain inner peace. This is the place where one realizes that only his holiness is and feels like true freedom, rather than like imprisonment, and, too, why Hell, I imagine, a magnified version of man's never-ending conflict between freedom and peace, would be the flesh's ultimate utopia - yet its ultimate regret.

~ Criss Jami

It has been utterly exhausting to love you.

~ Tan Redding

The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.

~ Shannon L. Alder

People withhold their forgiveness, thinking that it makes them badass. But really, the unwillingness to forgive is merely the wishing that things were better. You wish that you had better, you wish that someone else were better so they could have treated you better... it’s you making wishes. And that’s not badass. To forgive is to be able to look at the person and say “I accept that you weren’t any better than what you were”, “I accept what you were you and couldn’t have been what I wished you to be”, “I accept that things were the way they were and weren’t any better.” The ability to forgive is intertwined with the ability to accept the reality of the way things are/ the way a person is or was. You stop wishing things and you just accept. And hope is what says to you: “One day you’ll have what’s better.

~ C. Joybell C.

Don’t dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sin drains strength.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When we begin to love and care for each other, we will share our challenges.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love builds, encourages and strengthens.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

At the mercy of grace,My mind renewed.My soul restored.My spirit rekindled.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards.

~ Gillian Duce

We only need grace to endure every situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are no regrets in life, only experiences. Every experience helps us to be what we can be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You can love them, forgive them, want good things for them…but still move on without them.

~ Mandy Hale