Forgiveness Quotations | Page 5

Don't let the sun go down on me.

Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.

As long as we love, we can forgive.

We pardon as long as we love.

Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my God, for having outraged Thee by my sins. Pardon me, O holiness of my God, for having so long stained Thy sight's purity by my sins. Pardon me, O mercy of my God, for having despised so long Thy mercy's voice. In deep sorrow and contrition, I cast myself at Thy feet: Have mercy on me.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.

Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. We are prone to make mistakes that cause confusion, inflict pain, and miscommunicate our intentions ... The only choice we have is to reconcile ourselves to our own flaws and the flaws of other people, or withdraw from the community.

When you assume responsibility for what you experience and share what you experience in a spirit of companionship, that is the same as forgiveness. When you hold someone responsible for what you experience, you lose power.

Forgiveness is not a moral issue. It is an energy dynamic... Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience. When you choose not to forgive, the experience that you do not forgive sticks with you. When you choose not to forgive, it is like agreeing to wear dark, gruesome sunglasses that distort everything, and it is you who are forced every day to look at life through those contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance and hatred. There is so great a need for repentance and forgiveness. It is the great principle emphasized in all of scripture, both ancient and modern. Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask the Lord for strength to forgive. This expression of desire will be of the very substance of your repentance. It may not be easy, and it may not come quickly. But if you will seek it with sincerity and cultivate it, it will come. And even though he whom you have forgiven continues to pursue and threaten you, you will know you have done what you could to effect a reconciliation. There will come into your heart a peace otherwise unattainable.

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.

Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

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

forgive what you can't excuse ...

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

the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.

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

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

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

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

If men wound you with injuries, meet them with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar. It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

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

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.

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

The offender never pardons.

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.

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.

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

Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

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

The enslaver is enslaved, the hater, harmed.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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

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

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

I have forgiven you. Nevertheless, begone!

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

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

Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

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

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

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

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

God will forgive me. It's his job.

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 pardon: That's His business.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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