Forgiveness Quotes

The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

We’re in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment.

~ Sri Amma Bhagwan

forgiveness happens when you know that the other is not responsible.

~ Sri Amma Bhagwan.

We're each of us our own chiaroscuro, our own bit of illusion trying to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

~ Libba Bray

Do not waste your life hating. Let your life glow in love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is the heartbeat of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter what kind of sin you have committed, there is always forgiveness. You must repent and seek for forgiveness. You can walk in the new life and light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter what kind of sin you have committed, there is always forgiveness. You must repent and seek forgiveness. You can walk in the new life and light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages in Jesus Name.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.

~ Alison Croggon

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.

~ Rick Warren

The trust of those in dark need is forgiving work.

~ Sebastian Barry

If I expect nothing of you, it will be far easier to forgive your offenses than if I place my whole world in your hands.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Don’t Die™ Waiting to Be Brave is about the synchronistic nature of life, love, trust, gratitude, forgiveness and the crooked road of success.

~ Andrea T. Goeglein

The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her child if someone were to harm it. There is something wrong if the mother never gets angry, it is safe to say that that is the unloving mother.

~ Criss Jami

n order to capture someone's attention, you must allow them to have the mental and emotional space to let you in.

~ Auliq Ice

God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

To forgive' is divine they say, and 'to forget', attracts blessings, but to go a step further, and learn a lesson from a bad encounter/ experience is an act of wisdom;and promise oneself that you will never allow yourself to be exposed to such a thing or a person or even an idea again.

~ Henrietta Newton Martin

The most wonderful type of love, she had learned, was the kind built with care and over time, through forgiveness and understanding, compromise and compassion, trust and acceptance. It was hidden in the minutiae of every day life; it was in the traded smiles during a radio show or the peaceful lulls on an evening stroll.

~ Kristina Mcmorris

A good enemy can be better than the best of friend.

~ Simona Panova

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

~ Margaret Way

I don’t want your apology. I want your obedience.

~ Tara Sue Me

The process of grieving any loss is dependent upon your relationship to the person.

~ Asa Don Brown

No relationship, Chrissy, I don't care how truly, madly, deeply it is...No relationship survives on hope. It's forgiveness that keeps it alive.

~ Chrissy Anderson

God wills our liberation, our exodus from Egypt. God wills our reconciliation, our return from exile. God wills our enlightenment, our seeing. God wills our forgiveness, our release from sin and guilt. God wills that we see ourselves as God’s beloved. God wills our resurrection, our passage from death to life. God wills for us food and drink that satisfy our hunger and thirst. God wills, comprehensively, our well-being—not just my well-being as an individual but the well-being of all of us and of the whole of creation. In short, God wills our salvation, our healing, here on earth. The Christian life is about participating in the salvation of God.

~ Marcus J. Borg

We need to extend forgiveness to all who have hurt us. Forgive others who have trespass you just as your Heavenly Father forgives you. God's grace is the power to forgiveness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Forgiveness is strength.The strength to move ahead without any resentment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is divine.Forgiveness is divine. Forgive for the love for yourself and others. Forgiveness is a spiritual healing for the person who forgives.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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

~ Charles F. Glassman

Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.

~ Oscar Wilde

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

~ J.k. Rowling

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

~ Jane Austen

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

True forgiveness is when you can say, Thank you for that experience.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,Men were deceivers ever,-One foot in sea and one on shore,To one thing constant never.

~ William Shakespeare

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

~ Mark Twain

Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome. The last thing they need is for you to make matters worse by responding angrily.

~ Joel Osteen