Top 100 Forgive Someone Quotes
#1. If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance
James Augustus St. John
#2. God's mercy to us is the motivation for showing mercy to others. Remember, you will never be asked to forgive someone else more than God has forgiven you.
Rick Warren
#3. It's easy to forgive someone for the hurt they've caused you. Forgetting is impossible.
Tara Sivec
#4. Is not seeing any ugly parts in myself an ugly part? Is not wanting to forgive someone's ugly parts an ugly part in oneself?
Yeah. I didn't understand a word you said, but yeah.
Francisco X Stork
#5. Granny was right,' I said. 'When you forgive someone it does make you stronger. It makes your heart bigger than your hate.
Jack Gantos
#6. How do you forgive someone who hasn't apologized? How do you forgive someone who hasn't acknowledged wrongdoing?
Zukiswa Wanner
#7. It's harder to forgive someone else your own sins than those uniquely theirs. Much harder.
Mark Lawrence
#8. We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!
Neal A. Maxwell
#9. The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#10. To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.
Marshall Sylver
#11. Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.
Stephen Richards
#12. Maybe right now you can't see how to overcome an obstacle, accomplish your dreams, or forgive someone who hurt you, but understand that when you get there God will hand you the ticket. He purchased it two thousand years ago on a cross at Calvary.
Joel Osteen
#13. The biggest mistake is not to forgive someone who broke your trust but to return him the previous version of you who trusted blindly.
Himmilicious
#14. When you are unable to forgive someone, you deny yourself a life free of anger and hate.
Winsome Campbell-Green
#15. Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
Desmond Tutu
#16. God has smiled on me, He has set me free. For us to acknowledge that we have been set free from toxic dependency, from crippling obsession or guilt, that we have been graced with the ability finally to forgive someone, is just plain astonishing.
Anne Lamott
#17. Pause and remember - It is never too late to begin again, to forgive someone, to have a dream, to meet someone or to love yourself. It is never too late!
Jennifer Young
#18. We forgive someone of a wrong they have done us when we decide that we will not make them suffer for it in any way. This
Dallas Willard
#19. Forgiveness is capital 'L' Love in action. Until you have to forgive someone, you haven't loved. You just think you have. Until somebody forgives you, you don't know humility. [p342, 1st paperback edition]
Rea Nolan Martin
#20. To forgive someone else,
is to forgive yourself.
Even though you do not understand this.
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
October 6, 2016
Petra Hermans
#21. When you forgive someone who has hurt you,you liberate yourself." page 158 of "Two Weddings.
Farin Powell
#22. What does it mean to forgive someone? It only means that you release the anger, the hatred. It doesn't mean that you're saying it's all right now, or that you've forgotten the wrong. It just means that you've drained the boil. When you touch it, it doesn't hurt as much. That's all.
Lisa Unger
#23. Let's forgive someone for Valentines day, it's a great way to show love, and forgive yourself too for the hurt you held onto.
Jay Woodman
#24. It's very possible and very okay to forgive someone and still not want to spend time with them
Karen Salmansohn
#25. When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.
Reshad Feild
#26. It doesn't make you weak to forgive someone, you know" he said. "No, but it gives people another chance to hurt you.
Jamie McGuire
#27. That's the unforgivable sin, you know."
"What is?"
"Refusing to forgive someone."
"Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin?" I asked incredulously.
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
#28. I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.
Candace Bushnell
#29. You you think you need to forgive someone ... you got it all wrong.
Vivian Amis
#30. How can you forgive someone when they can't give a reason why?
PureDragonWolf
#32. When we forgive someone, we don't pretend that the harm didn't happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness.
Sharon Salzberg
#33. It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.
Caroline Llewellyn
#34. The best way to forgive someone is to enter into their sufferings ...
John Geddes
#35. How can you not forgive someone who made you a better person?
Piolo Pascual
#36. I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
Dwight L. Moody
#37. Loved her, Lord. I loved her enough to die for her, and she did this to me. Maybe she's beyond redemption. How do you forgive someone who doesn't even care enough to want to be forgiven?
Francine Rivers
#38. It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
Timothy Keller
#39. Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.
Gina Greenlee
#40. To forgive someone means to let him off the hook, or to cancel a debt he owes you. When you refuse to forgive someone, you still want something from that person, and even if it is revenge you want, it keeps you tied to him forever.
Henry Cloud
#41. It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been counting the minutes until I could forgive her. But it's a lot harder to forgive someone who's not looking to apologize.
Kimberly McCreight
#42. The only true way to forgive someone, it seems to me, is to forget what they have done to you and, in turn, forget them. Whether that is possible is another question.
Vu Tran
#43. Jesus teaches us to bless our enemies (Matthew 5:44) To bless those who curse us (Luke 6:28). To "never avenge yourselves" (Romans 12:19). When we truly forgive someone, we need to come to the place where we can bless them and desire God's blessing also on their lives.
Greg Gordon
#44. 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.
Lewis B. Smedes
#45. When we forgive someone, it doesn't justify what they've done. It releases them into God's hands so He can deal with them.
Stormie O'martian
#46. If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.
Gary Zukav
#47. Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is ... and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.
Donna Ball
#48. We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
Leonard Cohen
#49. This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.
Barry Lyga
#50. If you love someone enough, you find you can forgive them for just about anything, because living without them is more miserable than any grudge you could hold.
Linda Kage
#51. if somebody steals from you, you should forgive them because they might have been in need. If someone speaks behind your back, say nothing because you must be the bigger person. When you fall in love, give all your heart to your beloved and don't ever doubt.
Zahed Haftlang
#52. The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans said that those who pass judgment on others are 'inexcusable.' The moment we judge someone else, he explained, we condemn ourselves, for none is without sin. Refusing to forgive is a grievous sin - one the Savior warned against.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#53. I learn to trust someone I love..
I learn to deal with heartbreak..
I learn to forgive him who hurts.
I never stop learning in this life.
Toba Beta
#54. The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.
Stephen Richards
#55. I went to the park and watched the pigeons bob their heads and I felt so lonely that I hoped someone would come along and stick a knife into my ribs just so they could have my empty wallet.
Matthew Quick
#56. Be someone that is easy for anyone to forgive and hard for anyone to forget.
Robert J. Braathe
#57. Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things or asking Him for good things. Maybe it's just the act of praying and feeling that there's someone up there listening that makes us feel better and less helpless.
Sarah Darer Littman
#58. It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.
Sue Miller
#60. Loving someone gives them permission to do things to you because they know you'll forgive them. -Shaye
Gena Showalter
#61. You don't need a reason to forgive ... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.
Melissa Bank
#62. 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.
Deb Caletti
#63. I scratch at my forehead, my nervous habit when someone is really seeing me. "Well, I couldn't just walk away. I'd never be able to forgive myself if I did.
Jessica Sorensen
#64. Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.
Paulo Coelho
#65. You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.
Alan Cohen
#66. Forgiveness is a very curious thing, in that you must not only know how to forgive; but you must also know how to accept forgiveness. Both of these aspects are equally important. When someone forgives you - believe it.
C. JoyBell C.
#67. Sometime, it's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.
Mark Lawrence
#68. The artistic is thus very close to the ethical. If only we could grasp the world from someone else's standpoint, we would have a fuller sense of how and why they act as they do. We would thus be less inclined to reproach them from some loftily external point of view. To understand is to forgive.
Terry Eagleton
#69. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
Stephen Richards
#70. The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
Veronica Roth
#71. He is a principled man, and compassionate, someone who will remind himself of your best qualities while struggling to forgive your worst. In short, he is a friend.
Tracy Guzeman
#72. If someone chooses not to forgive others, they are actually hurting themselves. The only way to free yourself from that is to forgive others so you can be free from your past.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#73. As I get older I've come to realize that the best way to "get even" with someone is to forgive - and then forget.
Mark Hart
#74. When someone judges you for something you can't help, try to forgive them. They don't understand. And if they keep doing it, knock their fucking teeth in.
Seanan McGuire
#75. Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.
Stephen Richards
#76. Of course I still love my grandma even after all the awful stuff she did to me, which is scary that you can love someone who is not nice. I guess that is what getting better will do to a person: make you forgive people who have been mean to you.
Jack Gantos
#77. She couldn't help wondering if that was how one made the decision to forgive or not. If letting go hurt more than accepting someone's mistakes.
C.C. Hunter
#78. She'll forgive you. That love you have for her? It runs deeper than any hate, and it takes so much more to hate someone than to love them. Hate is so exhausting. Trust me, I know.
Jewel E. Ann
#79. Enduring and forgiving are two different things. You must not forgive the cruelty of this world. It's our duty as human beings to be angry at injustice. But we must also endure it. Because someone must sever this chain of hatred.
Hiromu Arakawa
#80. Free yourself from the poisonous and laborious burden of holding a grudge. When you hold a grudge, you want someone else's sorrow to reflect your level of hurt, but the two rarely meet. Let go ... Sometimes, forgiveness is simply a reflection of loving yourself enough to move on.
Steve Maraboli
#81. If someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt
to tell you the truth.
Marshall Sylver
#82. That's the thing with relationships, I understood: it doesn't mean we don't hurt one another; how can we help it sometimes, we're only human. But if you love someone, you get hurt and you manage to forgive. And be forgiven.
Marian Keyes
#83. To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.
Robert Breault
#84. If someone treats you bad and they apologise for it: Forgive them.
If someone treats you bad twice and they apologise for it: Drop them.
Steven Aitchison
#85. People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.
Jonathan Carroll
#86. One of the most wonderful things you can do in this world is forgive others. We are designed to have flaws and make mistakes. If we emulate God, we are led to forgive. Giving someone the ability to recapture their dignity can transform lives. Do it often.
John Fairclough
#87. Forgive me if I stare, I knew you were young, but even then I was expecting someone a little more, well, more.
Christopher Paolini
#88. Dr. Buckley says that all people have things they are good at and not so good at and that if I like someone, I should appreciate his or her good points and forgive the bad. This makes sense to me. Dr. Buckley is a very logical woman.
Craig Lancaster
#89. Forgiveness doesn't work that way. You may want to forgive, but you can't do it yet. Forgiving someone can take weeks, months, years. Sometimes it takes a lifetime.
Anne Bishop
#90. Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.
Billy Graham
#91. Loving someone is kind of like offering forgiveness. There's no guarantee that they're not going to hurt you again. You can't promise perfection. But you choose to love and you choose to forgive, because living in fear of being hurt again is just a facsimile of life.
Liz Johnson
#92. It's not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.
Paulo Coelho
#93. Forgiving someone only absolves you from holding them accountable. When that person has not truly met that accountability, it is a weakness on your end, Miss Rachael. To forgive when they are unrepentant only relieves you of that responsibility.
Deidre Huesmann
#94. The six people you must find today ...
Someone to love.
Someone to thank.
Someone to be grateful for.
Someone to forgive
Someone to forget
Someone to admire.
James Altucher
#95. The magic of each day lives in the unknown. It's waking up as one person, and accepting that when night falls, we may be someone else entirely. So, when you ask what my story is, forgive me----I'm not quite sure yet.
J. Raymond
#96. But maybe because sometimes a girl just really needs to snap at someone who she knows will forgive her later.
Ally Carter
#97. Sure it hurts, but if you love someone, you forgive them." Blanche
Somethings you forgive, somethings you never forgive." Kate
Neil Simon
#98. Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?
Shirley Hazzard
#99. And loving someone doesn't mean you have to love everything they do. But it does mean you forgive them a little more often, a little more easily.
Melanie Harlow
#100. If someone has wronged you, tell this to yourself: "I did not deserve God's forgiveness, but He forgave me through Christ. So I forgive this person also.
Paul Silway
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