Top 100 Forgiveness Is Quotes
#1. Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
Barbara Johnson
#2. The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
Anne Lamott
#3. To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry.
Mac MacKenzie
#4. It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.
Benjamin Hoadly
#5. This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.
Barry Lyga
#6. Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.
Mary McCarthy
#8. When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes
#9. It is in love, compassion, and forgiveness that we truly serve.
Donald Clinebell
#10. Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE!
Dana Arcuri
#11. Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.
Henrik Ibsen
#12. Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
Joyce Meyer
#13. I'm beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.
Shane Kuhn
#14. It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
Karl Barth
#16. The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.
Iyanla Vanzant
#17. Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward. A good man will endure all things to honor Christ.
Joseph Smith Jr.
#18. the fear of God" is increased by an experience of God's grace and forgiveness. What it describes is a loving, joyful awe and wonder before the greatness of God.
Timothy J. Keller
#19. Give plenty of what is given to you, And listen to pity's call. Don't think the little you give is great, And the much you get is small.
Phoebe Cary
#20. Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.
Nicholas Sparks
#21. Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
Lawana Blackwell
#22. Forgiveness is the fastest way to a spiritual path and inner peace of mind
Muhaya Haji Mohamad
#23. Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world ...
Sathya Sai Baba
#24. Forgiveness is a revolving door positioned in your path. You must step through it to move on, but it takes both timing and choice to escape walking circles inside.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#25. 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
#26. The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
John Stott
#27. Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.
Wayne Dyer
#28. To love those who love us and are good to us is easy. To love those who are indifferent to us is workable, but to love those who have harmed us, intentionally or not, is true growth and realization.
Patsie Smith
#29. Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God's true nature. God's heart is more gentle than the Virgin's first kiss upon the Christ. And God's forgiveness to all, to any thought or act, is more certain than our own being.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#30. However many and however great and burdensome your sins may be, with God there is greater mercy. Just as His majesty is, so likewise is His mercy.
Patriarch Tikhon Of Moscow
#31. Forgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing.
Choa Kok Sui
#32. To be forgiven is not enough; we must put an end to the very need to be forgiven.
Bernadette Roberts
#34. This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the contrary, God's mercy is a great gift of grace precisely because sins are sins and they call for repentance and forgiveness.
Thomas J. Paprocki
#35. Love is joy and happiness.
Love is purity in it's true form.
Love covers multiple of sins.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#36. Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.
Tom Giaquinto
#37. Forgiveness, both its extension and receipt, requires a lower, humble position before both God and man. Forgiveness, both its extension and receipt, is not the natural inclination of man, and I must fight for it.
Seth Haines
#38. Change is inevitable, so accept it.
Forgiveness is a gift, so give it.
Love is abundant, so spread it.
Failure is not fatal, do don't fear it.
Life is for living, so live it.
Debasish Mridha
#39. Legalism is seeking to achieve forgiveness from GOD and acceptance by GOD through my obedience to GOD
C.J. Mahaney
#40. Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#41. Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#45. The Lord's capacity to forgive a person who is truly repentant is without limit, without qualification
Elizabeth Camden
#47. Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.
Pope John Paul II
#48. 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
#49. I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.
Sue Monk Kidd
#50. Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things. - as Frank Roennfeldt
M.L. Stedman
#51. Guilt/guilty The liability to be punished for a fault, a sin, an act, or an omission unless there is forgiveness or atonement; the term normally concerns an objective fact, not a subjective feeling.
Anonymous
#52. The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness.
Heather Bixler
#53. The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
Willa Cather
#54. Forgiveness is most Christlike when it is given to the undeserving.
Jim George
#55. Forgiveness is the way we break the grip that long-held resentments have on our hearts.
Sharon Salzberg
#56. Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
John Dryden
#57. Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.
Ezra Taft Benson
#58. Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.
Timothy Keller
#59. But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
Abraham Lincoln
#60. For forgiveness to work in your life, it has to be genuine. It has to come from the heart. When it does, it is so powerful that bitterness fades away and you are able to see the "gifts" in what has happened. I also think forgiveness is a kind of humility." -Winsome Campbell-Green
Winsome Campbell-Green
#61. You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
Nicole Kidman
#62. Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option.
Joel Osteen
#64. The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
Tyler Perry
#65. To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.
Sylvia Fraser
#66. True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.
Desmond Tutu
#67. Forgiveness is greater than condemnation, and love stronger than hate. What is there left for us to contemplate?
-Reed Abbitt Moore-
Reed Abbitt Moore
#68. Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.
Art Alexakis
#69. Tapping is a powerful tool that can truly heal, allowing forgiveness, love, and acceptance into your life, particularly when used along with affirmations.
Louise Hay
#70. Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
Max Lucado
#71. All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama
#72. Forgiveness is easy,' he says. 'It's just like a door. You open it and walk through.
Lisa Heathfield
#73. God doesn't care how well you can preach about forgiveness ... what He looks at is your behavior when presented the opportunity to practice it.
Steve Maraboli
#74. You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice.
Sonia Rumzi
#75. 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben
#76. You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.
Alan Cohen
#77. I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
#78. Would you have me forever carry hate for one who is dead?
Benita J. Prins
#79. Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.
Tim Fargo
#80. This is the thing: people think that magic doesn't exist, but it does, all the time. We use spells every day: the spell of forgiveness, the spell of thanks.
Nick Lake
#81. Teachers of my
early youth
Taught forgiveness
stressed the truth
Here then is my
Christian lack:
If I'm struck then
I'll strike back.
Maya Angelou
#82. The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception. It will not endure. But for the time it lasts it comes to heal. For true perception is a remedy with many names. Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#83. It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.
Auliq Ice
#85. Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recognize that choosing whom I see and whom I don't see is one of the most hurtful functions of privilege.
Brene Brown
#86. Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.
Joel Osteen
#88. The Good News is that God's mercy and forgiveness extend to those who repent. Mercy does not mean approving of something that is sinful, but does absolve the wrongdoer after a change of heart takes place in the sinner through the gift of God's grace.
Thomas J. Paprocki
#89. There is no sin that Jesus cannot forgive.
Jim George
#90. Sins of ignorance or infirmity are to be admonished in a different way than intentional sins of malice of intention. The assurance of forgiveness is not to be offered carelessly by those whose conscience is seared, but to penitents who come contritely to the table of the Lord.
Thomas C. Oden
#91. Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don't think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.
Steve Goodier
#92. Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.
Max Lucado
#93. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
Stephen Richards
#94. As humans we have two great spiritual needs. The first is forgiveness, which God has made possible by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins. Our second need, however, is for goodness, which God also made possible by sending the Holy Spirit to dwell within us.
Billy Graham
#95. Forgiveness is a form of the highest love
Ma Jaya
#96. I believe that "love" is not about forgiveness, it's about acceptance, and acceptance keeps relationships alive.
Morgan Parker
#97. Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him.
Charles Brent
#98. The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.
Giacomo Casanova
#99. Home is where
'I know you',
'I accept you',
'I forgive you',
and 'I love you'
are most likely to be heard.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#100. 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
