Forgiveness Quotes

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat......Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.........Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive. But should they finally confess and repent, you will discover a miracle in your own heart that allows you to reach out and begin to build between you a bridge of reconciliation.........Forgiveness does not excuse anything.........You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness......

~ William Paul Young

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind one's own business.Not to want to manage other people's affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To pass over the mistakes of others.To accept insults and injuries.To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.To be kind and gentle even under provocation.Never to stand on one's dignity.To choose always the hardest.

~ Mother Teresa

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

~ John F. Kennedy

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

~ Confucius

Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.

~ Veronica Roth

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

~ Anne Lamott

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

~ Abraham Lincoln

...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.

~ William Paul Young

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

~ William Paul Young

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

~ William Paul Young

I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.

~ Susane Colasanti

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

~ Jodi Picoult

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it—because we need it.

~ Bree Despain

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

~ Gautama Buddha

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

~ Gerald G. Jampolsky

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

~ Charlaine Harris

Forgiveness isn’t my best thing.Easier staying pissed. But I’mtired of being pissed all the time.Tired of feeling hurt by stuff thatcan never be fixed because it isan indelible part of the past.

~ Ellen Hopkins

They lie, you know. It's not easier to ask for forgiveness. Not even a little.

~ Michelle Hodkin

...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same

~ Thomas Jefferson

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

~ Lewis B. Smedes

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

~ Socrates

See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event -- it's a process. Forgiveness happens while you're asleep, while you're dreaming, while you're inline at the coffee shop, while you're showering, eating, farting, jerking off. It happens in the back of your mind, and then one day you realize that you don't hate the person anymore, that your anger has gone away somewhere. And you understand. You've forgiven them. You don't know how or why. It sneaked up on you. It happened in the small spaces between thoughts and in the seconds between ideas and blinks. That's where forgiveness happens. Because anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth. At least, that's what I hope.

~ Barry Lyga

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...

~ Anne Lamott

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

~ Emma Goldman

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.

~ Cherie Carter-Scott

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

~ Joyce Cary

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

~ Anne Lamott

Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It's not only possible, it's essential.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

~ William Arthur Ward

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

~ William Hazlitt

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

~ Veronica Roth

I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.

~ Gayle Forman

I don't understand women that call themselves a bitch. It doesn't empower a woman. Rather, it reveals to everyone that you were deeply hurt at one time. Because of the pain your still carrying, you will continue to hurt anyone that reminds you of those moments when you let your guard down and were fooled. Sadly, it sends a clear message to the observant that you are still hurt. If only women would realize that we all have moments of stupidity then they would stop comparing themselves to the masses.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.

~ Elizabeth Lowell

Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.

~ Criss Jami