Forgiveness Quotes

I don’t want God's forgiveness. And He’s not getting mine.~Harry Silver

~ Janet Sketchley

She would not allow herself to remember how Note had treated her, and many others too, she suspected. She had forgiven him, yes, but she still did not like to remember. And perhaps a deliberate act of forgetting went along with forgiveness. You forgave, and then you said to yourself: Now I shall forget. Because if you did not forget, then your forgiveness would be tested, perhaps many times and in ways that you could not resist, and you might go back to anger, and to hating.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

Are we bombs or balms? Let’s face it. Any time of year can bring happiness or hardships. Financial stress, marital/relational strife, and extended family dysfunction can all be compounding pressures that can make our tempers react and explode like a bomb. When we respond in this fashion it dramatically intensifies these already difficult situations and creates massive emotional destruction with the collateral damage always being the ones we say we love. It destroys, maims, and kills our relationships. Blowing up is often a selfish, immature response to our stresses and should always be avoided. James 1:19-20 says “My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.” Therefore, instead I encourage us all to be more like balms. A balm is like a gentle word that protects and soothes an already irritated situation with understanding and forgiveness. It provides relief and healing when applied generously. When we lay ourselves down like a balm of love we give our families a tender calming cover from the worries of this world and that’s the greatest gift we can offer them…anytime of the year. ~Jason Versey

~ Jason Versey

Sin builds up. Forgiveness cleans up.

~ Todd Stocker

Obedience, forgiveness, and devotion are in the blood of every victim.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life. Every time I have set out to translate the book (or story, or hopelessly long essay) that exists in such brilliant detail on the big screen of my limbic system onto a piece of paper (which, let’s face it, was once a towering tree crowned with leaves and a home to birds). I grieve for my own lack of talent and intelligence. Every. Single. Time. Were I smarter, more gifted, I could pin down a closer facsimile of the wonders I see. I believe, more than anything, that this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.

~ Ann Patchett

Forgiveness is a clean lotion that heals the wounds of misunderstandings! To iron out the differences, get the painful sores dressed up, Forgive and Forget!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness and sharp edges and broken, but He is good and pure and whole, all that I strive for but am not. I wake up every morning and I sit in silence and I choose to believe. I may speak. I may not. I let Him wrap up all my broken in to His grace. He takes me imperfect. This is the great mystery I never knew.

~ Anna White

Never forget that when connections get destroyed by means of bad communication, it's good communication that resolves them. Don't be shy to say I am sorry and please forgive me. That's a good communication!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Why is it so important for me to forgive that son-of-a-bitch? I’m not the one at fault here. It shouldn’t be about me. He’s the one that did wrong. Screw his feelings. He should feel like he’s hated for what he did.” Lisa added another used tissue to the growing pile on the table.Lyn warmly smiled. “Forgiving Byron isn’t for his sake, it’s for yours. The block in your life’s road can only be removed if you forgive him for what he did. If you don’t, you’ll just keep bumping into that block again and again. The life you live will be miserable. You’ll never be able to break the chains of the past.”Lisa listened and let the words sink into her subconscious. She realized the only way to get to the end of the road was to take the first step. There was a block preventing her from moving forward in life. She had to find a way past it.

~ Dane Hatchell

Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

... that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we have 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

We would be in each other's lives again. No, he hadn't been the best father, but he was my father, and we loved each other. We needed each other. Though he'd disappointed me countless times through the years, life had already proven too short for me to hold on to that. So I let go of my hurt. I let go years of frustration between us. Most of all, I let go of any desire to change my father and I accepted him for who he was. I took all of my anguish and released it like a fistful of helium balloons to the sky, and I chose to forgive him.

~ Liz Murray

Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive.

~ Tim Relf

Forgiveness: It’s not because they deserve it, it’s because you do. Sometimes forgiveness is about loving yourself enough to move on.

~ Steve Maraboli

Better to be blinded by love than hate, one forgives and the other refuses.

~ T.f. Hodge

Your number one task here is forgiving yourself and the people who mistreat you. You must learn to do this if you want to experience real happiness and peace in this life. You must do this if you want to feel accepted, valued and safe. The only way to feel innocent and worthy – is to give it to other people. That is just how it works.

~ Kimberly Giles

The one who never repents shall be the one who never sleeps.

~ Charles Lee

A lie has forgiveness. A deceive doesn't. The difference is in lying to protect and deceiving to harm.

~ Eulália Marques

You cannot do more than you can, so be gentle with yourself and quick to forgive your mistakes and to move on.

~ Toni Sorenson

I may not give you the forgiveness you're asking, but i'm giving you forever to make me forgive you.

~ Jcrov

How can you love those who have stolen from you, assaulted or abused you, or tried to blow you up and completely destroy you? How can you forgive those who have kidnapped, tortured and killed someone you love? Yet this is where reconciliation has to begin.

~ Andrew White

To clean our hearts from hatred,we have to forgive before forget & remember that our life is short.let's live in love & peace~~Abeer Almadawy

~ عبير المعداوي

If we can't forget, how can we forgive? I believe that forgiving can't be done by willpower alone. I can will myself to write out my own memories and feelings. I can will myself to imagine onto the page how someone else may have felt. I can will myself to research someone else's life in order to better understand what happened. But I don't think I can forgive by simply willing to forgive. Forgiving happens to us when our hearts are ready. Sometimes it takes the form of working on our own story until quietly, often surprisingly, we simply let go of the hurt. Sometimes forgiving makes it possible to pick up the pieces of a broken relationship and begin again. Sometimes it means letting a relationship go. We can't forgive through willpower. What we can do is work toward readiness of heart. Writing as a spiritual practice can be that kind of work.When our heart is ready, we often don't even know it until forgiveness happens within us. It is a gift.

~ Pat Schneider

God forgives us, as—when—we forgive them who injure us—and ourselves. These last weeks I think I have understood what many times in the past I thought I knew—but we never know—we never reach the end of understanding—the understanding of God—the mystery of his love...

~ Lucy Beckett

Sorry' is just a word… A word that acquires a little bit of strength when uttered by a heart, which believes in its power, but yours is silent.

~ Irina Serban

I think sometimes when we grew up with a parent who is deeply flawed....we learn, subconsciously at least, to expect the worst from everyone else as well....Fortunately, it doesn't have to be that way forever. We can learn to see with new eyes if we try.

~ Mindy Starns Clark

you must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

~ Clive Barker

I will never forget what you did to me. I will never forgive it. I will never stop mourning what you stole from me. But I realize now I can't steal it back and I'm done spending every day trying to.

~ Katja Millay

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.

~ Charles Dickens

When you're lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep... I should have If only I'd I wish I'd...grab one of them and turn it into an I will and sleep peacefully knowing tomorrow will be a better day.

~ L.r. Knost

Live a life abundant in love and rich in spirit, these are the seeds of a fulfilling existence. Be the safe harbor you seek in the world. Follow your dreams, not your fear. Go into the New Year with an open mind and hopeful heart. Don't let the chains of unforgiveness weigh you down. Life is too short to live in a prison of past hurts. The futures is yours for the taking and creating. Life is bittersweet, when we can let darkness and light co-exist as illumination, we can live in true happiness. When we live life at its best, it is a symphony of feelings, of high and low notes, of tragedy and comedy, love and loss, magic and the sublime. It can be quite a spectacular journey when we fully embrace and accept it.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.

~ L.r. Knost

When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.

~ Genevieve Gerard

It is only when one knows the unutterability of the name of God that one can utter the name of Jesus Christ, it is only when one loves life and the earth so much that without them everything seems to be over that one may believe in the resurrection and a new world, it is only when one submits to God's law that one may speak of grace, and it is only when God's wrath and vengeance are hanging as grim realities over the heads of one's enemies that something of what it means to love and forgive them can touch our hearts.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I’m beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.

~ Shane Kuhn

It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.

~ Thomas Hardy

Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.

~ Amalie Howard