Forgiveness Quotes

...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul...

~ John Geddes

It seems we need someone to know us as we are--with all we have done--and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please. ...for...others it seems there must be a person to redeem us to ourselves. It isn't enough, apparently, to know oneself. To forgive oneself in secret.

~ Sue Miller

No matter how long you behest, to the fruit draped tree. It will do you no best, until a shingle you free.

~ Shahzad Ashraf

Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute.

~ Toni Petrinovich

Forgiveness is a practiced and fervrent process.~R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore.

~ I.e. Castellano

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.

~ Tyler Perry

Holding on to weight (i.e. anger, bitterness, the past, hatred) will not only hold you back, but also block your blessings. You've got to let some things go to move forward.

~ Yvonne Pierre

Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen.

~ Melina Marchetta

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

~ Robert Penn Warren

Forgiveness is freedom. It's something you do for yourself - to keep who you are intact. Now that I think about it - in some ways, it's kind of a selfish act.

~ Anne Greenwood Brown

Forgiveness wasn’t ever easy, but a feat much more manageable when you weren’t the subject of its grace. Maybe I’d always be a broken recipient of grace. And in that musing, I found rest.

~ Rachael Wade

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

~ Judith Guest

I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.

~ Habeeb Akande

The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Unforgiveness,splinter in your breastbone, lives there lodged like a small tree.Withers in winter, looms in spring. Its fruit is sweet on first bite, then turns into the taste of your own flesh.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Love, forgiveness, modesty, humility and gratitude are most important virtues in life.

~ P. Remes

I can leave myself to rot in the past, spend my time hating people for what happened, like my father did, or I can forgive and forget.But it's not that easy.He smiled that Frank smile. Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things...

~ M.l. Stedman

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

~ Lawana Blackwell

Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.

~ Paulo Coelho

I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.

~ Tyler Perry

Their tongues met, starving, two years without this delicious meal. They kissed and kissed and kissed. The joining of their mouths was more intense than that night on the ferry. This was a kiss of reunion. Of forgiveness. Of coming home.

~ Lori Wilde

Granny was right,' I said. 'When you forgive someone it does make you stronger. It makes your heart bigger than your hate.

~ Jack Gantos

Lay down an unforgiving spirit, because there'll be no peace until you do.

~ Anita R. Sneed-Carter

True repentance isn't just saying, I'm sorry. It's. saying I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything.

~ Serita Ann Jakes

Grigsby had looked at him askance. “Why is it,” he said, “that I have the distinct impression you’re not surprised by this news?” ‘Surprised by the fact that the reverend is first and foremost a human being? Surprised by the fact that every human being, reverend or ribald, can be undone by capricious circumstances? Or should I be surprised by the fact that a man who teaches love and forgiveness can love and forgive? Tell me, Marmy, exactly what it is I should be surprised at?

~ Robert Mccammon

There are things that can be fixed with an apology and things that can't.

~ Otani Lovely Complex

When it comes to the crunch, coming out is the greatest of all confessions. Nothing is more difficult to acknowledge. When we become ourselves we reach right back to the time when we were conceived out of our parents’ passion. We murder their lives. There can never be any forgiveness.

~ Witi Ihimaera

The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness.

~ Heather Bixler

Nakao: Koizumi, I'm so sorry I said such cruel things.Otani: What's that?Nakao: The whispering of your heart.

~ Heikichi Nakao Otani

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

~ Louis Zamperini

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

~ Alain De Botton

But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sometimes... the first step to forgiveness is realizing that the other person... is batshit crazy.

~ Michelle Bartlett

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone.

~ William Shakespeare

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.

~ Ryan Winfield

Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing us, our immediate reaction must be to lift up our hands and bless him. Our enemies are the blessed of the Lord. Their curse can do us no harm. May their poverty be enriched with all the riches of God, with the blessing of Him whom they seek to oppose in vain. We are ready to endure their curses so long as they redound to their blessing.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

~ Emily Giffin

Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.

~ Josee D'amore

God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our souls, but the manifest forgiveness by which we have mercy on one another and so give expression to the fact that He is living, by His mercy, in our own hearts.

~ Thomas Merton