Forgiveness Quotes

A peaceful heart forgives, and forgiveness will transform our lives and our planet.

~ Eileen Anglin

Great mercy, great love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is human to sin but divine to be saved.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When I found God forgiveness found me.

~ Ron Baratono

Fear grid-irons your broken, suffering heart with strength, encasing it with a protective, tough shell. One that soon becomes a prison that will emaciate the unused, enclosed heart inside if left to its own accord. But renewed hope gently unwraps the hard cast, and replaces it with a more resilient, pliable layer, protective, strong, but permeable so as to let love soak in and nurture the malnourished, dying heart inside.

~ Connie Kerbs

Try and make it right, and if you can't, that's on them, not you. Forgiveness shouldn't be stockpiled by anyone. It should be given freely.

~ Karina Halle

Forgiveness comes more readily when, we have faith in God and trust in His word. Such faith “enables people to withstand the worst of humanity. It also enables people to look beyond themselves. More importantly, it enables them to forgive.

~ James E. Faust

Dipping into the pitcher of the past, his father often said, can only sour the cup of the present.

~ Gerald N. Lund

Though he wouldn’t take it or offer it back, she gave. She squeezed it into him and held it there. She accepted him. She loved him in his wretchedness, kissed his ragged cheek, and called him /father./

~ A.s. Peterson

The gift of salvation set me free from all my sins.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Forgiveness heals all wounds and make you healthy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Son of God, Jesus Christ, ransom His life to save us all.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not allow hate to consume you. Live a life of love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Forgiveness takes away the burdens of past.

~ Debasish Mridha

In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.

~ Raymond E. Feist

Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration of health.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration health.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Yes. I really love you, Becky, and when you love someone that much, the pain and the pleasure is that much more intense. But forgiveness is a given.

~ Linda Warren

Can you forgive her? Can you do that?There was no response.Because if you can start to forgive, then it will become easier.And?And then you will be able to forgive yourself—and ask others to forgive you.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

To forgive others, you must forgive yourself first.

~ Debasish Mridha

So forgive and forget the past baggage of life to refresh your life.

~ Debasish Mridha

Do not allow your sad past to rule your present situation. Unlike a tango, it does not take to two to forgive.

~ Stephen Richards

If you can’t love yourself, how can you love others? If you can’t forgive yourself, how can you forgive others?

~ Debasish Mridha

If you love someone, you will forgive him or her all the wrongs. You can make it right and love again.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Forgiveness is freedom. Forgiveness is liberation. Forgiveness is a choice. If you forgive and forget you are free but, if you keep it, you shall always have it and it shall always rule and direct your heart, mind, body and spirit.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It became clear to him that all the dreadful evil he had been witnessing in prisons and jails and the quiet self-satisfaction of the perpetrators of this evil were the consequences of men trying to do what was impossible; trying to correct evil while being evil themselves...Now he saw clearly what all the terrors he had seen came from, and what ought to be done to put a stop to them. The answer he could not find was the same that Christ gave to Peter. It was that we should forgive always an infinite number of times because there are no men who have not sinned themselves, and therefore none can punish or correct others.

~ Leo Tolstoy

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

~ H.w. Brands

We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.

~ Billy Graham

Christ can take the most sin-laden, selfish, evil person and bring forgiveness and new life.

~ Billy Graham

Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!

~ Billy Graham

When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

~ Billy Graham

Before asking God’s forgiveness there is something important you must do. You must repent, that is, turn from the behavior and lifestyle that [leads to sin].

~ Billy Graham

When God forgives, there is an immediate andcomplete change in relationship. Instead of hostility, there is love and acceptance. Instead of enmity, there is friendship.

~ Billy Graham

Repent when you fail, and immediately seek God’s forgiveness and restoration. Sin breaks our fellowship with God.

~ Billy Graham

Guilt is not all bad. Without it there is nothing to drive a person toward self-examination and toward God for forgiveness.

~ Billy Graham

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

~ Billy Graham

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

~ Billy Graham

The only way we can change an enemy to a friend is by forgiveness.

~ Debasish Mridha

Speak with silence, listen with heart, and forgive with kindness.

~ Debasish Mridha