Top 100 Forgiveness Healing Quotes
#1. By seizing every opportunity for kindness, forgiveness, healing, and love that crosses my path each day, I hope that my death, although perhaps sad for some, will be gracefully concluded.
Lisa J. Shultz
#2. But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.
Craig Groeschel
#4. Forgiveness is healing - everything is energy - thoughts create - we are all connected - what you resist persists - true love never dies - the soul's immortality is the only true immortality -
Alyson Noel
#5. The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#6. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.
Stephen Richards
#7. We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.
Louise Hay
#8. Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.
Brandon Bays
#11. Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.
Sharon Salzberg
#13. The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson
#14. One has to beckon the spiritual warrior inside oneself whenever it is deemed necessary for the task at hand. Courage is the fuel. Healing is the direction. Forgiveness is the balm. Love is the atmosphere Divine.
Donna Goddard
#15. Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation.
Phil Cousineau
#17. Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.
Stephen Richards
#18. To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.
Sylvia Fraser
#19. Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Whether a woman has stayed, left, or been left, it must be remembered that time is the salve on this journey towards forgiveness and healing, because it is also a process of grieving.
Meryn G. Callander
#20. Forgiveness is the key to happiness, and there is great healing that comes from going through the journey of forgiveness.
Sam Gupta
#21. In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.
Stephen Richards
#22. Receiving forgiveness requires a total willingness to let God be God and do all the healing, restoring, and renewing.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#24. When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.
Stephen Richards
#25. Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#26. The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.
Stephen Richards
#27. I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing ... forgiveness.
Louis Zamperini
#29. Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.
Stephen Richards
#31. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
Stephen Richards
#32. We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls.
Ed Dobson
#33. Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
Stephen Levine
#34. Forgiveness was a trait that Jesus preached about. It was not a destination to achieve but a starting point in the journey required for healing.
Sarah Price
#35. One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.
T.D. Jakes
#36. Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
Stephen Richards
#37. Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.
Anabel Jensen
#38. As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
Stephen Richards
#40. Forgiveness has to be repeated, the bible says seventy times seven.
Max Patrick
#41. When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.
Stephen Richards
#42. I am a firm believer in living as if there were no such thing as a secret. If we hide our sins and live in darkness, we will never get the healing we so desperately need; in fact, if it is hidden so well that we don't even recognize it, we may never even find forgiveness.
Ted Haggard
#43. When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.
Stephen Richards
#44. He doesn't hurt us anymore."
Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore.
Melanie O'Shea
#45. The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way.
Stephen Richards
#46. Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another.
Asa Don Brown
#47. I used to think that forgetting was the path to healing, the path to forgiveness. But I was wrong.
Kim Askew
#48. Forgiveness is essential to health, growth, and healing.
Lee L Jampolsky
#49. The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.
Stephen Richards
#50. Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts.
Asa Don Brown
#51. Sophisticated meditative disciplines, healing practices, cognitive and emotional trainings, conflict resolution techniques - he used them all to awaken his visitors to their own qualities of integrity, equanimity, gratitude, and forgiveness.
Jack Kornfield
#52. Deep down inside, each of us knows what our truths are. It is forgivable to lose them ... It is unforgivable not to reclaim them.
Holli Kenley
#53. Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word 'give' is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein.
Stephen Richards
#54. Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.
Stephen Richards
#55. In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
#57. True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.
Brandon Bays
#59. 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
#60. Love is the only power that heals, connects and includes all ... not by force, but by grace.
Vivian Amis
#61. As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.
Agnes Sanford
#62. An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review
Robert Uttaro
#63. Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.
Joyce Meyer
#64. Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.
Stephen Richards
#65. This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.
Stephen Richards
#67. Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning.
Stephen Richards
#68. True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.
Robert Holden
#69. You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#72. This is the difference time creates
We bleed our misbehavior
And in silent prayer, repent
It is only necessary that we fall away again
Into love
Michele L. Rivera
#73. Remember, healing through forgiveness takes place in the soul and subconscious, not by a face to face confrontation that ends in hugging and tears of joy. In fact, chances are that would never happen anyway, so you are setting yourself up for failure if that is your expectation.
Sharon Critchfield
#74. I believe one of the most important reasons I am here today is to practice forgiveness and to learn the power of it as a gift to others and myself. By focusing on forgiveness in my life today, I am promoting my healing and lessening my regrets.
Lisa J. Shultz
#75. Love melts. Love heals. Love unites. Love forgives. A Divine Union that goes beyond time and space, that's what I'm looking for -
Nityananda Das
#76. Forgiveness, she was only required to accept the seed of healing, and to let it grow on its own time.
H. L. Balcomb
#77. In Your presence is fullness of joy and peace that passes all understanding. Let Your grace and mercy be a healing balm to my heart. Your forgiveness cleanses and purifies my soul.
Keith Provance
#78. Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#79. Do not be deceived that you are weak because you have forgiven; instead be rest assured that you are now showing great strength - after all, forgiving is one of the most difficult things to do.
Stephen Richards
#80. A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.
Stephen Richards
#81. The gentle waters poured from the heavens, baptizing the two angels in a healing shower that washed away their differences, lifting the veil from their sight, and they knew they were the same.
C.J. Sullivan
#82. Every grievance you hold hides a little more of the light of the world from your eyes until the darkness becomes overwhelming. Everything you forgive restores that light. So ask yourself, who is it that you are really hurting?
Donna Goddard
#83. Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, "Today I am going to be rich," does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best.
Stephen Richards
#85. Locking ourselves in the situation where we wish for sympathy and want to be looked at as the aggrieved party normally makes us powerless.
Stephen Richards
#86. Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.
Stephen Richards
#87. I believe that love and forgiveness engages an incomprehensible healing force and sometimes true healing occurs, but always an emotional and spiritual healing happens.
Angeli Maun Akey
#88. Forgiveness does not mean I approve of or condone what transpired.
Sharon E. Rainey
#89. Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.
Gina Greenlee
#90. Your soul finds ego in fear. Your mind finds ache in pain but your heart finds love when free.
Kemi Sogunle
#91. The shift from thinking that I must feel forgiveness to the practice of repetitive giving forgiveness has helped me in my healing journey.
Lisa J. Shultz
#92. When we forgive others, we give ourselves permission to let go of our own suffering.
John Bruna
#93. I have learned through repeated experiences that in order to heal, I MUST forgive. The forgiveness is not for the transgressor. The forgiveness is for ME.
Sharon E. Rainey
#94. The same zeal and guts with which you were persistent not to forgive is the same zeal and enthusiasm with which you should be able to open up a new relationship with your partner, loved one or friend, one that is founded on commitment and dedication.
Stephen Richards
#95. If you think you need to forgive anyone ... you got it all wrong.
Vivian Amis
#96. When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself.
Vironika Tugaleva
#97. In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.
Asa Don Brown
#99. You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!
Stephen Richards
#100. One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
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