Forgiveness Quotes

The thing to hold on to in forgiving is that most often the people who are hurting us do not know what they are doing. In fact it is fair to say that none of us knows the impact of our actions in relationships, at least for a lot of the time. We are all unaware of our power to hurt and to heal.

~ Carla L. Rueckert

Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost

~ Jonathan Tropper

When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.

~ Debasish Mridha

If you cannot forgive others, how can you forgive yourself?

~ Debasish Mridha

Three great actions: To do what is right, To love mercy, and To walk humbly with Yahweh.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you encounter another person…it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, What is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation? If you confront insult or antagonism, your first impulse will be to respond in kind. But if you think, as it were, This is an emissary sent from the Lord, and some benefit is intended for me, first of all the occasion to demonstrate my faithfulness, the chance to show that I do in some small degree participate in the grace that saved me, you are free to act otherwise than as circumstances would seem to dictate. You are free to act by your own lights. You are freed at the same time of the impulse to hate or resent that person. He would probably laugh at the thought that the Lord sent him to you for your benefit (and his), but that is the perfection of the disguise, his own ignorance of it…I am reminded of this precious instruction by my own great failure to live up to it recently…

~ Marilynne Robinson

There are new mercies every morning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

...according to God's Word, we should not give a singe drop of evangelical consolation to those who are still living in sin. ON THE OTHER HAND, we should not address the slightest threat or rebuke to the broken hearted--but only promises delivering consolation and grace, forgiveness of sin and righteousness. Life and salvation.

~ C.f.w. Walther

God’s forgiveness is not just a casual statement; it is the complete blotting out of all dirt and degradation of our past, present, and future.

~ Billy Graham

She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.

~ Philip Pullman

A book about books is like a poem about poetry:Books are knowledge, paid for, all.Readers - horses in a stall.Stallions should always run.Lest they stale become, in turn.Running waters are most clear.In some books, you disappear –lose yourself, and track of time.How I wish that one was mine...Mine, to have, to write, to read...Mine, just like a flying steed.Mine, forever, - to improve.Would I then, of me, approve?I would not, I can't... myself.I'm but dust, swept off a shelf.Fly, can I, just 'til I'm settled,down, beside my flower, petalled.

~ Will Advise

It may not be an easy thing to live in sweet fellowship with all those with whom we come in contact, but that is what the grace of God is given to us for.

~ Dwight L. Moody

The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

~ Jon Krakauer

You have to forgive yourself for your past mistakes, and you have to forgive those that hurt you for what they did to you, or you're never going to fully move on.

~ Jennifer Gracen

The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith—and He will forgive.

~ Billy Graham

Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.

~ Billy Graham

When we take too long to forgive the people we love, we can sometimes be too damn late for it to matter.

~ Monika Basile

God offered the greatest and most wonderful gift freely, while we were still sinners. It is a gift for any and every one, no matter how broken, how far, or how dark. He didn’t require us to change before we came, but offered a way out while we were at our worst.

~ Sarah Holman

He who possesses forgiveness is able to enjoy true happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

I was mortified that I could spend a lifetime with someone and not know them at all—that I could love someone so blindly and never question who they really were. Was it stupidity? Or is that merely what love actually is—to see the good, to love the good and wonderful and ignore the rest? I think that is what I used to believe…I don’t believe that anymore.Love is seeing every damn rotten thing about someone and loving them anyway. It’s not being too afraid to look deep inside another person and still being able to see all the good messed up in with the bad. Love is accepting the shit as well as the roses. I think I failed to ever smell the bullshit. I only smelled the roses and never realized that it is the shit that makes the roses bloom.

~ Monika Basile

To lose--get angry and fight back. To win--forgive with love.

~ Debasish Mridha

To extend compassion to a so-called villain, to forgive those who have wronged you, and to find common ground with someone who has been awfully isolated are not acts typically met with fireworks and swelling violins. More often than not, they are pushed away. To love, really love, is to do them anyway.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The best revenge is true forgiveness.

~ Debasish Mridha

People tended to forgive only partially. They forgave in order to, one day, get a chance to remind those they’d forgiven about their failings. They forgave to feel righteous. That’s why forgiveness was so painful – because it meant conceding. It meant letting go of her case without a rebuttal. True forgiveness knew no justice. It was liberating, most probably… but freedom comes at a cost. Freedom is never free.

~ Adelheid Manefeldt

Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership . . .that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven.

~ Billy Graham

We make a mockery of God’s forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will forgive it later.

~ Billy Graham

Having no need to judge, control, react, so forgiveness does not even arise.

~ Jay Woodman

Write this word deeply into our consciousnesses: forgive! We are bound to develop desires, and to use our will to seek after those desires, whether they be for things worldly or hallowed, for possessions, attributes or the lack of them, and as we achieve our desires, we will find the side effects of each and every one. We will wrong others, for the most part unintentionally, but still, we will err, and others will wrong us, whether they mean to or not. We generally are simply moving too quickly, and judging people and situations too hastily.

~ Carla L. Rueckert

As women, we almost never give ourselves enough credit for what we're capable of, for what we endure and how giving we are. Part of loving yourself is about forgiving yourself - which is something I've always struggled with. It's the messy parts that make us human, so we should embrace them too - pat ourselves on the back for getting through them rather than being angry for having gotten into them in the first place. Because loving yourself is ultimately about self-acceptance, about embracing every part of who you are. And that's never just one thing.

~ Jennifer Lopez

Give people the chance to change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Give people the chance to change their heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be compassionate with all people. Give them the chance to change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be compassionate with all people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With weapons we can kill our enemies, with love and forgiveness we can win them.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

If someone puts you through hell, don’t be mad or bitter about it, because the thing that will free you from that hell is forgiveness.

~ Jeanette Coron

When you forgive your enemy, you may no longer have one.

~ Debasish Mridha M.d.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Laugh it off, Life gets better.

~ Touaxia Vang

You must first forgive yourself in order to forgive others.

~ Debasish Mridha