Forgiveness Quotes

Forgiveness, she was only required to accept the seed of healing, and to let it grow on its own time.

~ H. L. Balcomb

Forgiveness is alchemy of the soul in which the feeling of possibility returns to the human spirit.

~ Jake Ducey

Support is not always easy to come by if you wait for the world to see your worth. Discover your own worth and the world will indeed follow your lead. Its the law of cause and effect! It has to happen. Support yourself.

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Kill him with your blessings of healing.

~ H. L. Balcomb

Rosalie had never been one to question or accuse, just to forgive -- but I guess everyone had their limits when it came to tolerance levels, and I’d crossed the line.

~ Embee

Forgiveness is a selfless gift of love to others.

~ Joan Ambu

I was going to die. I was going to die, right now, right here, before I even had a chance to thoroughly apologize to anyone for what I’d done...before I had a chance to forgive myself. I wasn’t even going to leave with a bang, one final act of dignity or at least the thought that I still belonged somewhere; I would die without even the simple acceptance that I’d done everything I could. Tears welled in my eyes, but I didn’t let them fall. I didn’t want to die crying.

~ Embee

God never tires of forgiving us, we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

~ Pope Francis

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recentlywe have had our difficulties and there are many thingsI want to ask you.

~ Richard Siken

Jesus taught us to pray, Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us not forgive us and smite those bastards who hurt us.

~ Nadia Bolz-Weber

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

~ Nelson Mandela

If I could forgive, it meant I was a strong good person who could take responsibility for the path I had chosen for myself, and all the consequences that accompanied that choice. And it gave me the simple but powerful satisfaction of extending a kindness to another person in a tough spot.

~ Piper Kerman

You need to forgive people you don't understand; if not, try to understand people you want to forgive.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Be happy by forgiving or forgetting or doing both, but we can gain no happiness by holding grudges.

~ Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan

Forgiveness is mandatory, reconciliation is optional.

~ Lysa Terkeurst

A man can forgive all manner of faults in beautiful women that in ugly men he find entirely beyond sufferance

~ Joe Abercrombie

Don't focus on her hiss. Remember her purr.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him. Taught from earliest childhood, by all that he sees and hears that the rod is for the slave's back, he will not be apt to change his opinions in maturer years.

~ Solomon Northup

It's the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this instinct - it should be your first reaction. NOT violence, anger and hatred! That is something we are taught, it's a Choice You Make.

~ Michelle Horst

Life's too short not to forgive.

~ Miranda Kenneally

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was yourself.

~ Diane Moody

if the goddes can forgive her, can't we?I think there's a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn't just because she's dead

~ P.c. Cast

People are already disappointed by their acquaintances, they can not handle anymore hate from stranger, so show some instantaneous kindness and forgiveness to them.

~ Amit Kalantri

Just remember, someday you might be asking for forgiveness. And if that day were to come, you would want it, wouldn’t you?

~ Michele L. Rivera

If forgiveness is medicine for the soul, then gratitude is vitamins.

~ Steve Maraboli

Asking forgiveness is not an admission of cowardice and of sin, It is to show that having inner peace is far more important than pride especially if they think that you have wronged them in any way.

~ Sun Fire Elements

I believe what Jesus said was, 'I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men.

~ Orson Scott Card

We may not have the power to move mountains, but if we have the power to take someone's hand and named them loved and forgiven we have power enough.

~ Dianne Astle

The first time you tried to save people, you were certain of victory?Yes. In my pride, I knew I could not fail.Then, in your mind, you were risking nothing. Are you certain of victory tonight?Roman stared into the darkness of the booth. No, I am not.Then why are you risking your life?Tears filled his eyes. I cannot bear for them to risk their own. I...love them.The priest took a deep breath. Then you have your answer. You do this not out of pride, but out of love. And since love comes from the Father, He has not abandoned you.Roman scoffed.You do not understand the magnitude of my sins.Perhaps you do not understand the magnitude of God's forgiveness.

~ Kerrelyn Sparks

You ask me to forgive you? I’m thanking you. You finally loved me in that moment, and that love set me free, released me from my sworn duty.

~ Leland Dirks

All beings are vast multidimensional masters. They may be exploring divinity or limitation, but they are masters nonetheless. Then it becomes ok to simply allow them their process.

~ Ariel Tachi-Ren

We watched, and he taught us like he did every day we were with him. He showed us how to forgive.

~ Rob Buyea

... I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you remember all those times we fished together? You were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and I cannot ever think of you without feeling shame and regret. Regret… When it comes to you, Mariam jo, I have oceans of it. I regret that I did not see you the day you came to Herat. I regret that I did not open the door and take you in. I regret that I did not make you a daughter to me, that I let you live in that place for all those years. And for what? Fear of losing face? Of staining my so-called good name? How little those things matter to me now after all the loss, all the terrible things I have seen in this cursed war. But now, of course, it is too late. Perhaps that is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. Now all I can do is say that you were a good daughter, Mariam jo, and that I never deserved you. Now all I can do is ask for your forgiveness. So forgive me, Mariam jo. Forgive me, forgive me. Forgive me...

~ Khaled Hosseini

A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?

~ John Milton

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love.

~ Mary Baker Eddy

There’s a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you’ve terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Trauma can have a masking effect.

~ Asa Don Brown

He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.

~ John Green

Religion is spelled 'D-O', because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God's forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you've done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently. It's spelled 'D-O-N-E', which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God's gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.

~ Bill Hybels