Forgiveness Quotes

The essence of life is the power of love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When the resurrection sings itself in the robin's glad song, and bursting buds defy the death grip of winter, and you walk upon the yielding earth near my grave...remember that my soul is not there, but rather it is absent from the body and present with the Lord.

~ Carl Burnam

You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!

~ Stephen Richards

I hope my forgiveness reminds you,Of the part you forgot to break in me.

~ Jenim Dibie

Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don’t think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.

~ Steve Goodier

Universe, tell me about the time when the world was kind, when words didn't shatter the souland leave people bleeding into the crease of their smile. tell me about the time when people wouldn't hide behind sarcasm or humor to mask themselves from dying slowly on the inside. Universe, tell me the names of all the stars in your sky, because I may have met one the other night.His presence in my thoughts, his touch in my heart and no longer a dream but laying next to me now. There are marks on my body from the energy of our light.He is broken, like me, a fallen star. Yet, aspires to soar and believes he can fly. I too believe in dreams.Universe, do you think you can do somethingabout all the lonely souls? the broken? the fallen stars?There are so many of us.And what about the hurt? the pain? the restlessness?Oris this all part of something bigger, a lesson to be learnt? so we can become a part of you?Universe, it’s me, Please hear my soul speak, my heart beat,I've learnt my lesson.Forgive me.Offer me redemption or bring me back to you.Universe, are you there?

~ Rina Nath

Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died.

~ Jenim Dibie

Life is never easy for any one. Be gentle with one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I was thinking about changing into a different sort of person than the one I am. I do think about that. I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same. What has Cam ever done that actually hurt me, anyway, as Haro once said. And how am I better than he is after the way i felt the night Mother lived instead of died? I made a promise to myself i would try.I went over there one day taking them a bakery cake - which Cam eats now as happily as anyone else - and I heard their voices out in the yard - now it’s summer, they love to sit in the sun - Mother saying to some visitor, “Oh, yes I was, I was all set to take off into the wild blue yonder, and Cam here, this idiot, came and danced outside my door with a bunch of his hippie friends - ‘ ‘My God, woman,’ roared Cam, but you could tell he didn’t care now, ‘members of an ancient holy discipline.” I had a strange feeling, like I was walking n coals and trying a spell so I wouldn’t get burnt. Forgiveness in families is a mystery to me, how it comes or how it lasts

~ Alice Munro

Sometimes all you need is to forgive yourself.

~ Unarine Ramaru

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness begins on ours.

~ L.g. Abell

Forgiveness was a mere noun; a fleeting concept of little importance in the grand scheme of written and spoken language, and was thereby spilt freely like cheap, overabundant wine without consequence. Yet forgive was a verb and in turn held far more potency; an action that must be genuine and consciously performed without reservation in order to fully embody the idea behind it. It was both a plea and an affirmation that could only be acknowledged as obtainable through the mutual contract of expression and acceptance between two parties of equal understanding. Enacting forgiveness was and always would be more difficult than simply declaring that the concept itself existed, and the irreversible condition of the human heart would forever ensure that such disparity would remain fact.

~ Mallory Perkins

May we greet each other with a smile, hug and speak kind words.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else, there is the Art of Acceptance.

~ Rebecca O’dwyer

You should never forget. But you should try to forgive.

~ Michelle Madow

We fall away, but God redeem us.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do you want to look back and wish you’d handled this differently? Most of us go through life feeling invincible, but none of us know what day will be our last. Is holding on to your anger truly worth it?

~ Michelle Madow

Fight fire with fire, only adds more negative energy to the situation, making it worse.

~ Auliq Ice

My grandmother's last act on earth was a call for forgiveness, love, and tolerance.

~ Sherman Alexie

It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.

~ Auliq Ice

It takes strength to forgive and love unconditionally.

~ Michelle Madow

Keep your quiet spirit, peace and calmness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It’s taken years, but part of my own personal growth has involved deciding that I can learn something from even the most annoying person.

~ Auliq Ice

It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.

~ Auliq Ice

Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!

~ Auliq Ice

You fall flat on your face, and it's not the first time you've done it, Never let your past press you down.

~ Auliq Ice

The practice of radical forgiveness, the extension of compassion-this is grace.

~ Jiulio Consiglio

If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Something was stirring in him, though; a bud of comprehension that could very well bloom into forgiveness if left unchecked.

~ Julie Anne Long

Yesterday is done. Today has just begun. I am not going let anyone's negative issues do anything to me other than inspire me to do better.

~ Gillian Duce

Forgive? It's not easy, Millicent. But I must forgive. Even if he never say he sorry. I do my part. Leave Boone's part to God. That not for me to control. So, not for me to worry about.

~ Julie Cantrell

There is grace for every soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never judge the life of another man. You never know his struggles.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never judge the life of another man.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We ought to give each other, a chance to change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Standing there shuffling the memories on the counter, I remember what I sometimes forget. Forgiveness. Compassion. Gratitude. Three roads leading to being here now, where we can give the next moment a chance to exist without prejudice, so we can love what’s here, while it’s still here: each other, ourselves, our freedom. - excerpt from FOR THE SENDER: Love Letters from Vietnam

~ Alex Woodard

Sometimes it's too heavy to give a second chance.

~ Manasa Rao

The bond of love is sacred spirituality.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is useless to fight fire with fire. When you’re offended, it is instinctive to want to fight back in anger.

~ Auliq Ice

It is better to show ‘you care’ than say ‘I care’.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita