Forgiveness Quotations

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.

Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Real freedom is creative, proactive, and will take me into new territories. I am not free if my freedom is predicated on reacting to my past.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

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.

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth.

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?

We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

Enlightenment is the key to everything, and it is the key to intimacy, because it is the goal of true authenticity.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

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

The gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses much more than avoiding, overcoming, and being cleansed from sin and the bad influences in our lives; it also essentially entails doing good, being good, and becoming better. Repenting of our sins and seeking forgiveness are spiritually necessary, and we must always do so.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.