Top 30 Forgetting Forgiveness Quotes
#1. Forgiveness is not a one off decision; it is a journey and a process that takes time, determination, and persistence. Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life.
Corallie Buchanan
#2. 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.
Simon Wiesenthal
#3. Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.
John Climacus
#4. Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have "forever" repercussions.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#5. Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died.
Jenim Dibie
#6. You must also forgive yourself. You must forgive yourself for any past mistakes and failures that you cannot forget.
Laura Aranda
#7. Forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting to remember, but remembering to forget.
Gary Inrig
#8. What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?
Jodi Picoult
#9. Forgetting hurts the heart, but forgiving rejuvenates it.
Debasish Mridha
#10. Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
Zoe Akins
#11. Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.
Joyce Rachelle
#12. To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
Joyce Cary
#13. If you can't forgive and forget, then pick one and do it ...
Jim Brault
#14. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#15. Forgiving doesn't mean forgetting, nor does it mean approving of, what someone did. It just means that you're letting go of the anger toward that person.
Frank Sonnenberg
#16. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.
Christopher Hitchens
#17. To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.
Matthieu Ricard
#18. I used to think that forgetting was the path to healing, the path to forgiveness. But I was wrong.
Kim Askew
#19. You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.
Lois Lowry
#21. Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.
Claudia Black
#22. Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life. Corallie Buchanan, Watch Out! Godly Women on the Loose
Suzanne Eller
#23. We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.
Nelson Mandela
#24. Forgetting is not at all what forgiveness means.
K.M. Shea
#25. Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does get you somewhere. Just keep walking.
Shellie Palmer
#26. Forgiveness happens in the beat of a heart, forgetting takes a lifetime.
Jewel E. Ann
#27. Sometimes forgiveness is a tough thing to muster up. And forgetting? Well, you have to find the forgiveness first. Hopefully the forgetting will come...with time.
Mike West
#28. South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.
Nelson Mandela
#29. Be happy by forgiving or forgetting or doing both, but we can gain no happiness by holding grudges.
Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan
#30. Forgiveness is a spiritual exercise that has to do with many things, but forgetting is not among them.
Colin Tipping
