Forgiveness Quotes

I have never read, heard or seen hatred and guilt win a fight. When we walk in the light of forgiveness and love we meet true victory.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler.

~ George Macdonald

Sometimes we want to keep the battle going...until at last we we cut ourselves free. I don't forgive you to give to you, I forgive you to give to me.

~ Kate Mcgahan

You have only to forgive once. To resent, you have to doit all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things Frank to Hannah Roennfeldt

~ M.l. Stedman

I have acted foolishly, father forgive me.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A wise man once said: Forgive and forget its a better choice in life - Gavhi Theron.P

~ Gavhi Theron

Forgive because it makes you feel good.

~ Deepak Chopra

We all fail at times or make huge mistakes. I was among the worst. It can hurt. It can crush your spirit. To move on, we need to learn to sincerely forgive ourselves... again and again and again and again. As many times as necessary - so we can be able to feel the peace we need in our souls to keep living. Not just to be alive, but to live.Of course it also helps to forgive others when we are ready and able to, but its crucial that we need to learn to forgive ourselves too.

~ José N. Harris

Forgiveness means saying that you're not going to let what happened to you define you any longer.

~ Heidi Priebe

I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

~ Charles Dickens

His greatest satisfaction as a priest was to grant absolution, to help people forgive themselves for not being perfect, make amends, and get on with life.

~ Mary Doria Russell

Remembering is not enough, if it simply hardens hate. Sometimes the hating has to stop.

~ Eric Lomax

Okay,' she said. And that was that. The shortest fight we'd ever had.

~ Heather Hammonds

As long as you're still alive, you always have the chance to start again.

~ Emily Acker

...Perhaps part of the secret of leading a life in which you would not always be worrying about things, or complaining about them, was to accept that there were people who just saw things differently from you and always would. Once you understood that, then you could accept the people themselves as they were and not try to change them. What was even more important, perhaps, was that you could love those people who looked at things so differently, because you realized that they were not trying to make life hard for you by being what they were, but were simply doing their best. Then, when you started to love them, love would do the work that it always did and it would begin to transform them and then they would end up seeing things in the same way that you did.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

A man employs the full power of the state in his grief and ends up plunging his government into a fruitless and costly experiment. A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive - and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down. - Chapter 8

~ Malcolm Gladwell

Forgiveness before one’s death, isn’t just about asking and receiving it, it’s also about forgiving others.

~ Neha Yazmin

Our silence about grief serves no one. We can't heal if we can't grieve; we can't forgive if we can't grieve. We run from grief because loss scares us, yet our hearts reach toward grief because the broken parts want to mend.

~ Brené Brown

Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself.

~ Ethan Hawke

You don't ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it.

~ Leigh Bardugo

I am sure that if we can find reconciliation with our past – whether parents, partners or friends – we should try and do that. It won't be perfect, it will be a compromise . . . but it might mean acceptance and, the big word, forgiveness.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember. Think of the vine that curls from the small square plot that was once my heart. That is the only marker you need. Move on. Walk forward into the light.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the linePlease, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the lineI ain't got no ticket please let me ride the blinds

~ August Wilson

If I did anything right it was when I decided to practice forgiveness and free my heart from pain.

~ Iva Ursano

You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.

~ August Wilson

And He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek . . . And when He has done with all of them, then He will summon us. ‘You too come forth,’ He will say, ‘Come forth ye drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye children of shame!’ And we shall all come forth, without shame and shall stand before him. And He will say unto us, ‘Ye are swine, made in the Image of the Beast and with his mark; but come ye also!’ And the wise ones and those of understanding will say, ‘Oh Lord, why dost Thou receive these men?’ And He will say, ‘This is why I receive them, oh ye wise, this is why I receive them, oh ye of understanding, that not one of them believed himself to be worthy of this.’ And He will hold out His hands to us and we shall fall down before him . . . and we shall weep . . . and we shall understand all things! Then we shall understand everything! . . . and all will understand

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Enough rationalization. They simply had what you wanted, so you took it.[My chair-- I shit on my good chair!]You shit more than just your chair.You shit the world. All you ever cared about was winning -- And you did.The last man standing on a mountain of filth [. . .]Kazumi taught forgiveness. She accepted all refugees looking for a better life. And you turned that against her.Kazumi would show mercy.I'm not Kazumi.

~ Rick Remender

Your test is to forgive those who have hurt you, when you pass your test you will see your breakthrough

~ Jeanette Coron

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering. I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong. Besides, too high a price is asked for harmony; it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it. And so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket, and if I am an honest man I am bound to give it back as soon as possible. And that I am doing. It's not God that I don't accept . . . only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.

~ Craig Groeschel

He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as an impoverished Jewish carpenter so He could shed His blood, suffer, and die for the forgiveness of our sins.

~ Craig Groeschel

Forgive yourself when you fall down because we all fall down.

~ Toni Sorenson

I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

~ Madeleine Thien

Truth can be told in an instant, forgiveness can be offered spontaneously, but reconciliation is the work of lifetimes and generations.

~ Krista Tippett

Since it has quietly began to snow,new distances have awakened within me.

~ Gerrit Achterberg

I have learned through repeated experiences that in order to heal, I MUST forgive. The forgiveness is not for the transgressor. The forgiveness is for ME.

~ Sharon E. Rainey

Forgiveness does not mean I approve of or condone what transpired.

~ Sharon E. Rainey

It's hard. Being 15, 16, 17. You get so angry. You want to do something with that anger. I guess try to find some other way to let it out. Don't kill people. Don't kill yourself. Let yourself grow up a little. Then you might to start to think differently about things. You might get new opportunities to do something with your life that you never thought possible as a teenager. -- Thomas Harvey in the upcoming novel, Nikki White: Polar Extremes (Nikki, #3)

~ Jack Chaucer

If someone has wronged you, tell this to yourself: “I did not deserve God’s forgiveness, but He forgave me through Christ. So I forgive this person also.

~ Paul Silway