Forgiveness Quotes

You will find it possible to forgive when you realize that forgiveness is self remedy.

~ Gugu Mona

To forgive is an act of compassion... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.

~ Joss Whedon

How do you forgive those who’ve betrayed you? Move on from the hurt they caused? Does forgiving mean you’ve given them a pass?... Forgiveness is tricky, I’ve often felt like I can’t… But if you don’t… you’re trapped.

~ Aliyyah Eniath

As you lay yourself down to sleep tonight, think of something you are grateful for. Bless someone who was kind to you, and forgive someone who wasn't.

~ Eileen Anglin

Choose forgiveness not revenge , choose unity in diversity , choose equality and seeing everyone's value , choose to love even if undeserved , choose life even when you feel like it's out of reach ,choose to have hope when the circumstances might scream despair, choose according to His word and not what people would prefer. ‪#‎chooseHisway‬

~ Timothy Padayachee

Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Forgiveness frees up your heart to allow more positivity into your life. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

~ Eileen Anglin

To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.

~ Joyce Rachelle

If you wish good on someone with your whole heart, you cannot hold onto feelings of unforgiveness. You will be free.

~ C S Areson

Life is too short for it to be used to accumulate a harem of enemies.

~ Auliq Ice

We’re at church, for god sakes!” she hissed. “This isn’t right.”He shifted just so, his eyes narrowed with stubborn determination. “Why? God is love. God nurtures love. And, I love you, Elaine Pearson, and not just for your lovely body.”“You’re talking about sex, Ian.”He visually swept the church interior, noting the empty pews and flickering candles. “No, ma’am, I’m not,” he murmured, turning his attention back to her. “Sexual attraction is only a fraction of what flows between us. My body responds to you on a physical level, but that doesn’t mean I’m not in love with your mind and your soul. Remember that,” he stated with conviction, his words sounding like an order. I can get inside your head, love. You and I are connected in the stars—whether or not you believe that singular truth is irrelevant. What we are…who we are…together…transcends the past. Every experience led us here. You need to stop fighting me…yourself…and us.

~ R. W. Patterson

Out here, we let ourselves be imperfect. We let ourselves have the room to make mistakes—sometimes tragic mistakes—then we allow ourselves forgiveness. Within that forgiveness, we try to be better than what we were.

~ J.d. Brewer

Before getting upset, always ask yourself: Will this even matter in six months, in a year, or in five years? if the answer is no, then let it go.

~ Robin Dabhi

Forgiving and being forgiven frees our souls and lightens our load.

~ Sara Dormon

I want to fix an image of him in my head, but all I can see when I close my eyes is his body, still and lifeless in my arms. I let him go, and I will never forgive myself for that.

~ Clare Mackintosh

Forgive, Adapt and Evolve, because holding on stagnates your opportunity of being better.

~ Sachin Kumar Puli

you’re so afraid of everyone pitying you that you’d rather nurture their contempt than accept their forgiveness- Stacey Michaels

~ Nicola Sinclair

To heal would be to open the wound,examine it and forgive

~ Maeve Binchy

I do not serve your personal issues, Morevna. I serve the People, and the People will have crimes against their body answered. You fought at Leningrad. So did I. Why should he be spared?''Somebody ought to be.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

LIVE WELL___Forget them not, yet forgive, forgive..from self-harm, quita new page, right nowyour spirit's new year's eve.

~ Tara Estacaan

How can you forgive someone when they can't give a reason why?

~ Puredragonwolf

There is spiritual edification in recognizing that God stays faithful in his covenants, that he forgives all sin despite whatever historical or sociopolitical circumstance.

~ James Mikołajczyk

If we repent, the Lord will forgive us.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

you’re so afraid of everyone pitying you that you’d rather nurture their contempt than accept their forgiveness - Stacey Michaels

~ Nicola Sinclair

Forgiveness has no deadline.

~ Paul R Bland

Erase those negative tapes playing in your head. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you forget. He can cast your hurt in forgetfulness.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

when you forgive people, events and circumstances, you are in the process of change, which leads you towards dominant universal emotion called love.

~ Hina Hashmi

When you set out to change the world, the job seems insurmountable, but each of us can do his or her small part to effect change. We change the world when we choose to create a world of forgiveness in our own hearts and minds.

~ Desmond Tutu

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

~ Nāgārjuna

Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.

~ Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck

Do hugs, not drugs. Spread love, not legs. Respect, don't judge. Listen more, talk less. Understand, don't assume. Forgive and forget..!!

~ Aagam Shah

Turn your cheek' only works with physical slaps, only works pre-Second coming. Against guns, bombs, and the most inhumane practices ever conceived, we must protect ourselves. We must become the agents of God's vengeance.

~ Peter Tieryas

Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encounter with the mercy of Jesus takes place is my sin.

~ Pope Francis

Remember, healing through forgiveness takes place in the soul and subconscious, not by a face to face confrontation that ends in hugging and tears of joy. In fact, chances are that would never happen anyway, so you are setting yourself up for failure if that is your expectation.

~ Sharon Critchfield

A simple word of greeting, an offer of a cup of coffee on me, a smile and a hug will all go a long way toward reconciliation. A listening ear can open a wandering heart to the thought that God still loves them, and there just might be a place still set for them at their Father’s table.

~ Katherine J. Walden

You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself, then thank everyone who provides an opportunity.

~ G.i. Gurdjieff

Ulis, he prayed, abandoning the set words, let my anger die with him. Let both of us be freed from the burden of his actions. Even if I cannot forgive him, help me not to hate him. Ulis was a cold god, a god of night and shadows and dust. His love was found in emptiness, his kindness in silence. And that was what Maia needed. Silence, coldness, kindness. He focused his thoughts carefully on the familiar iconography, the image of Ulis’s open hands; the god of letting go was surely the god who would listen to an unwilling emperor. Help me not to feel hatred, he prayed, and after a while it became easier to ask that Dazhis find peace, that Maia’s anger not be added to the weight against his soul.

~ Katherine Addison

She is here, near my heart again!' he cried. 'Oh Lord, I thank Thee for all, for all, for Thy wrath and for Thy mercy! . . .And for Thy sun which is shining upon us again after the storm! For all this minute I thank Thee! Oh, we may be insulted and humiliated, but we're together again, and now the proud and haughty who have insulted and humiliated us may triumph! Let them throw stones at us! Have no fear, Natasha.... We will go hand in hand and I will say to them, 'This is my darling, this is my beloved daughter, my innocent daughter whom you have insulted and humiliated, but whom I love and bless for ever and ever!

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

God unconditionally loves us.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita