Forgiveness Quotations | Page 3

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

No hard feelings from our side. It's important not to get caught up in bad feelings. We don't have anything against those guys.

No person is perfect. I haven't, thank God, had any infidelity issues. But you can't say what you won't ever do. And you can't say that you won't have forgiveness in your heart if there were to be an issue like that.

If we had lost this game the way I shot free throws, I would never have forgiven myself. When it's all said and done, it doesn't matter how we won. We played great defense and we won, and that's how it's going down in the history books.

Legalism is to seek to achieve forgiveness from God and acceptance by God through my obedience to God.

Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.

We were concerned that the public couldn't understand the sudden catastrophe, and concerned about affecting international relationship. Supported by the central government, within less than 10 hours, we corrected this 'benevolent lie' and told public the truth, and gained their forgiveness and understanding.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

I have never forgiven myself ... that I might have made a mistake.

Know from our heart that it's a forgiving heart. Forgiveness is everything. It's everything.

I would simply like to be forgiven and forgotten. There is no need to remember me. The need is to remember yourself!

I did bless him at the end of our conversation. I said to him, 'Do you want the forgiveness of God?' He said, 'Yes.' I said, 'You have to ask for it.' I gave him absolution and said, 'Now go to the court and tell them everything that you've told me.' And that is exactly what he did. He made a public declaration of everything he said to me,

To effectively change children's peer relationships - especially undesirable relationships or reputations that have been entrenched for many years - it may not be sufficient to increase children's social competence without also altering their peer and family environments. Children must be taught forgiveness and empathy, and must learn to be accepting of individual differences.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

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

Like many Americans, I chose unwisely to not vote on some dates, on other dates I was out of town or busy raising a family of five. I've been a sinner and I ask forgiveness from the electorate.

I think Davis was much in the same boat. When you just get in the worst spots, there's no forgiveness.

I stood before my creator years ago and asked for his forgiveness, grace and redemption.

It is gratifying to note how scriptural words like justice, peace, forgiveness have become the lingua franca of the peace process,

I would hope that forgiveness would come to us for any remarks we made, and forgiveness would come to him and to all of us who, in our zeal, took different positions on a very controversial subject.

You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything... We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.

If you, through poor judgment, were to cover your shoes with mud, would you leave them that way? Of course not. You would cleanse and restore them. Would you then gather the residue of mud and place it in an envelope to show others the mistake that you made? No. Neither should you continue to relive forgiven sin. Every time such thoughts come into your mind, turn your heart in gratitude to the Savior, who gave His life that we, through faith in Him and obedience to His teachings, can overcome transgression and conquer its depressing influence in our lives.

Nobody`s Perfect

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

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

We are here to ask for your forgiveness,

forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice

Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

This program would clearly allow for the forgiveness of loans,

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

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.

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

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

If I say, "Yes, I forgive, but I cannot forgive," as though the God, who twice a day washes all the sands on all the shores of all the world, could not wash such memories from my mind, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.

It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission.

It's better to ask forgiveness than permission. - Brom

If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

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

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you.

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead

I want to rid my heart of envy, and cleanse my soul of rage before I'm through.

In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness.

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember that to get the bell ringing you have to tug awhile. Once it has begun to ring, you merely maintain the momentum. As long as you keep pulling, the bell keeps ringing. Forgiveness is letting go of the rope. It is just that simple. But when you do so, the bell keeps ringing. Momentum is still at work. However, if you keep your hands off the rope, the bell will begin to slow and eventually stop.

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.

We are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.

It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings, and strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries - to be reconciled and clasp hands in amity.

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Words will not ever be able to express my sorrow and my profound regret for all my actions and mistakes. I hope I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and those I've wronged or caused to suffer.

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we?