Forgiveness Quotations | Page 5

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

The offender never pardons.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

it's easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends.

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.

I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before.

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

The press is ferocious. It forgives nothing, it only hunts for mistakes . . . In my position anyone sane would have left a long time ago.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.

Just because you had every right to feel sorry for yourself didn't mean you ever took the opportunity to do so.

For still in mutual sufferance lies The secret of true living; Love scarce is love that never knows The sweetness of forgiving.

we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

forgive what you can't excuse ...

Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Never think you can separate who you are from what you're doing.

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

Forgiveness does not mean that we suppress anger; forgiveness means that we have asked for a miracle: the ability to see through mistakes that someone has made to the truth that lies in all of our hearts. Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness. Attack thoughts towards others are attack thoughts towards ourselves. The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

I have forgiven you. Nevertheless, begone!

I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love.

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracles And cures and healing wells.

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

There are some facts that will never change. One fact is that you are forgiven. If you are in Christ, when he sees you, your sins are covered-he doesn't see them. He sees you better than you see yourself.

Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

A coward never forgives.

There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.

Only the brave know how to forgive

The brave only know how to forgive.

Love is something you do for someone else, not something you do for yourself.

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

The truest joys they seldom prove, Who free from quarrels live; 'Tis the most tender part of love, Each other to forgive

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

The sage said, "The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love. That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them; you just forget. spiritual Dimensions of Psychology."

Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.

Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.

You've asked for forgiveness. This letter is to inform you that, on the heels of a statement by my dear friend, Congressman John Lewis, a man I admire and respect as much as any living American, I do forgive you.

We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.

Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.

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

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

God will pardon: That's His business.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

God will forgive me. It's his job.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it.

Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and normal between you.

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat

When you tame and domesticate the divine it loses its danger and it's power to forgive you, make you happy, or its power to challenge you, and call you towards new growth.

A heart filled with anger has no room for love.

Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

Who understands much, forgives much.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving ...

Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Dear Lord, please show me everything I need to understand about forgiveness and surrender

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.