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Forgiveness Quotes & Sayings

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A heart filled with anger has no room for love. — Joan Lunden

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. — Oren Arnold

Life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience. — Holly Lynn Payne

Anger is like a fire that must be burned up into the ashes of forgiveness. — Bruce Fisher

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth?
Wanda — Ouida

In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation. — Raymond E. Feist

I vow ... to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love. — Deb Caletti

Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery? — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Love yourself and extend the love to others. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How can I seek forgiveness for sins I haven't committed yet? — Nilesh Rathod

Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall. — Deepak Chopra

If you have enemies, forgive them. Forgiveness is always the best revenge and unforgettable punishment. — Debasish Mridha

The dead have a claim on us even heavier than that of the living, for they cannot hear our explanations, and we cannot ask their forgiveness. — Laurie R. King

Forgiveness in God's eyes is unconditional; no matter what you have done, you can receive forgiveness. — E'yen A. Gardner

Maybe, love is always forgiveness, to a degree. — Joyce Carol Oates

Who shall deliver us from the sin of the flesh? GOD alone, the Divine Being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. — Diana Princess Of Wales

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. — Indira Gandhi

There's a moment when all would go smooth and even,
If only the dead could find out when
To come back, and be forgiven. — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

Love can conquer every hateful heart. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You cannot predict the future but you can love and then love some more. — Julieanne O'Connor

Hatred brings bondage. Forgiveness liberates. — Francis G. Xavier

A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness. — Glenn Close

Speak graciously to young men as you would to your brothers. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Change of heart comes from the Creator. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield. — Criss Jami

Don't miss a chance at happiness because of your past misery. — Dustin Cruz

If you have a fault it is you do not forgive easy! — Stephen Richards

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred. — Michelle Cruz-Rosado

I have no desire to fight with anyone, anyway. I have a desire to forgive everyone, every way. — Debasish Mridha

No relationship, Chrissy, I don't care how truly, madly, deeply it is ... No relationship survives on hope. It's forgiveness that keeps it alive. — Chrissy Anderson

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt — Mary McLeod Bethune

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else. — Audre Lorde

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. — Cormac McCarthy

They knew what forgiveness was; they were willing to take him for better or worse; they loved him. — Richard Yates

Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness. — Rumi

The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive. — Demi Moore

Is your money that good, will it buy you forgiveness? — Bob Dylan

Patience is underscored with forgiveness. — Sunday Adelaja

Love mercy, love kindness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it. — Lewis B. Smedes

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. — Iyanla Vanzant

Wash your life with forgiveness and fill it with kindness. — Debasish Mridha

Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive." — Norman Vincent Peale

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness. — Janine Turner

War will not be able to bring peace - only love and forgiveness can do that. — Debasish Mridha

If you want to master your past at some point in time you'll have to learn forgiveness. — Chris Vonada

In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior. — Charlotte Lennox

If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent. — Kenneth Logan

Forgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process. — Grace Gealey

Forgiveness shouldn't be expected : It should be earned. — Estelle Maskame

Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven? — Sherry Thomas

Forgiveness must be initiated before life can begin. — Asa Don Brown

Sin builds up. Forgiveness cleans up. — Todd Stocker

Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long ... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls. — Lewis B. Smedes

In the Church, great wonders daily occur, such as the forgiveness of sins, triumph over death ... the gift of righteousness and eternal life. — Martin Luther

Forgiveness is the most powerful force against enemies. — Debasish Mridha

The fall of the nation, there is no;
Faithfulness,
Kindness and
Knowledge of God in your sacred land. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We all have our times of anger. It's when we hang onto that anger it becomes a poison to our heart and mind. — Ron Baratono

Every thought leads me back to crossroads of patience, forgiveness and love. — Shannon L. Alder

Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most. — Rodolfo Costa

Medication and forgiveness can make for joyous moments with the dying - it — Christopher Moore

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. — Marianne Williamson

Home is where
'I know you',
'I accept you',
'I forgive you',
and 'I love you'
are most likely to be heard. — Richelle E. Goodrich

FORGIVENESS ADDRESSES HOW WE THINK AND FEEL ABOUT OTHERS AND OURSELVES AND HOW THOSE THOUGHTS MANIFEST WITHIN OUR LIVES AS ENERGY. — Iyanla Vanzant

Or maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and the anger, and the wrong is forgotten. — Veronica Roth

To violate the law of love is to live in un-forgiveness — Sunday Adelaja

I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you. — Elizabeth Lowell

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

My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater. — Al-Shafi'i

Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable. — Sarah Dessen

There's a special place in hell for what some people have done but there's also a special place in God's heart for their forgiveness. — Johnny Hunt

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. — Anne Lamott

Holy Mother Church teaches us to end the year and also our days with an examination of conscience ... to be grateful and to ask for forgiveness. — Pope Francis

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. — William Blake

God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling ... — Leo Tolstoy

Forgive that you may be forgiven. — Seneca The Younger

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day
hoping that the other person will die. — Debbie Ford

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. - C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY — Sheila Walsh

Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic. — Ramakrishna

Can you really forgive if you can't forget? — Sarah Jessica Parker

After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness. — Arthur W. Pink

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. — Mignon McLaughlin

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite. — Lauren DeStefano

Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness. — John Marston

If you can't forgive and forget, then pick one and do it ... — Jim Brault

Love is a sacrificial item — Asa Don Brown

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. — Richard Rohr

When you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness. — Nicholas Sparks

Life is ever changing.
We are ever transforming. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I ask for your forgiveness. I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry. — Hwang Woo-suk

Forgiveness: best for cleansing. Forgetfulness best for repetition. — Soul Dancer

Elle: "You really think there's no forgiveness in what happened?"
Nico: "Forgiveness from who, Elle? — Vi Keeland

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions. — Stephen King

If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can't set us free of it. He won't take those things by force. — Dawn M. Turner

It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. — Mitch Albom

Love is the only power that heals, connects and includes all ... not by force, but by grace. — Vivian Amis

Every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us. — Richard Rohr

Amnesty is the forgiveness of something. Amnesty is anything that says, 'Do it illegally, it will be cheaper and easier.' — Marco Rubio

He doesn't hurt us anymore."
Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore. — Melanie O'Shea