Top 100 Forgiveness Is Quotes
#1. Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.
Marianne Williamson
#2. Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.
Ellen Hopkins
#3. Forgiveness is required to dissolve all the negative energy cords because it releases shame, guilt, anger, hatred, etc.
Hina Hashmi
#5. The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
#6. Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.
Josee D'Amore
#7. Yes. I really love you, Becky, and when you love someone that much, the pain and the pleasure is that much more intense. But forgiveness is a given.
Linda Warren
#9. Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
Betty Smith
#10. FORGIVENESS IS A SILENT, INTIMATE TEACHER. SHE IS ALWAYS READY TO BRING THE LESSONS YOU NEED, WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO LEARN.
Iyanla Vanzant
#11. Dad is a new person. A person who has learned that forgiveness is better then revenge. Next year, we'll teach him that heart attacks are not like women. You just can't keep having them!
Christopher Titus
#12. God will forgive you if you forgive others. Forgiving those who cause offence or injury is often exceedingly difficult. And yet, forgiveness is one of the most beautiful and important teachings of Jesus Christ. It is central to the gospel because, without it, you can't go to heaven.
Patrick Madrid
#14. Forgiveness is inherently powerful enough to extend itself wholly and completely to us even when we are the ones in need of forgiving ourselves.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#15. I just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.
Tavis Smiley
#16. True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.
Robert Holden
#18. Forgiveness is a matter of choice, not feelings. We demonstrate true forgiveness when we refuse to brood over the sins committed against us.
Randy Alcorn
#19. That kind of forgiveness is of God. And if they have it, they have it, and if they don't, well, maybe they'll find it someday.
James C. Dobson
#20. Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!
Billy Graham
#21. It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
Anais Nin
#22. Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.
Choa Kok Sui
#23. Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan's disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam's lapse was passion.
Sufyan Al-Thawri
#24. Un-forgiveness is like cancer; it eats you from the inside out.
Mary Johnson
#25. Forgiveness is not about the other person or what they did. Forgiveness is for YOU and about YOU.
Iyanla Vanzant
#26. Forgiveness is the key to inner peace because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love.
Marianne Williamson
#28. Forgiveness is not reconciliation. Those are two different things. Sometimes they go together, but not always. Forgiveness is an issue between you and the Lord. Reconciliation is an issue between you and the other person.
Michelle Borquez
#29. forgiveness is a tool that's available to get us back to a God-realized life.
Wayne W. Dyer
#30. Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
Ramakrishna
#31. The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.
Fulton J. Sheen
#32. Perhaps my favorite quote on forgiveness is from Mark Twain: Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds, on the heel that has crushed it.
Wayne W. Dyer
#33. Or maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and the anger, and the wrong is forgotten.
Veronica Roth
#34. So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn't forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you can't stand what you know. I resisted that reflex. That's my sole, solitary, lonely accomplishment.
Jane Smiley
#35. Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
Harold S. Kushner
#36. Forgiveness is not a one-time-only event. It is a process.
Rhonda Britten
#37. God's forgiveness is not just a casual statement; it is the complete blotting out of all dirt and degradation of our past, present, and future.
Billy Graham
#39. God is there. God's light is there. God's forgiveness is there. God's boundless love is there.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#40. Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.
Joyce Meyer
#41. Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
Kabir
#42. Forgiveness is far easier to grant than to grasp onto the hatred and bitterness
Nicole Bonney
#43. Forgiveness is hard, and most people tend to hold on to their hurts, to take some kind of perverse satisfaction in them.
Debbie Macomber
#44. Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#45. Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.
Jim Beaver
#47. When you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgiveness is generous or selfish. Maybe both.
Miguel Syjuco
#48. Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have delt.
Ben Greenhalgh
#49. Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.
Brian Tracy
#51. Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself, to be at peace, to be happy and to be able to sleep at night. You don't forgive because you are weak but because you are strong enough to realize that only by giving up on resentment will you be happy.
Luminita D. Saviuc
#52. Forgiveness is a virtue society pressures us to practice.
Ben Tolosa
#54. Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Augustine Of Hippo
#56. he was more grateful for Truffey's generous forgiveness than he would have been for the richest living in Scotland. Such forgiveness is just giving us back ourselves - clean and happy. And for what gift can we be more grateful?
George MacDonald
#57. Thus the authority of compassion is the possibility of man to forgive his brother, because forgiveness is only real for him who has discovered the
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#59. Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment.
Gary Chapman
#60. Forgiveness is the most powerful force against enemies.
Debasish Mridha
#63. Forgiveness is the best part of valor ... Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#64. 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
#65. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.
P. J. O'Rourke
#66. I don't know if I'm ready,' Poppy protested. 'Why must I do it so soon? There's no time limit for forgiveness, is there?'
'Sometimes there is.
Lisa Kleypas
#67. God will forgive you if you ask him to. Though your sins be numerous as the grains of sand on the shore, God's merciful forgiveness is far greater than your sins. Do not be afraid. Trust in his love. Repent of your sins without delay and return to the house of the Father. He is waiting for you.
Patrick Madrid
#68. God's Mercy and Forgiveness is available for everyone however, your part is to accept it and mend your ways
Josephine Akhagbeme
#69. 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
#71. Forgiveness is a promise not a feeling. When you forgive other people, you are making a promise not to use their past sin against them.
Brett
#72. To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
Saint Augustine
#73. Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another.
Asa Don Brown
#74. Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.
Louise L. Hay
#75. Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
Hannah Arendt
#76. He who possesses forgiveness is able to enjoy true happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#77. Forgiveness is the only way to heal. We can choose to forgive because we feel compassion for ourselves.
Miguel Ruiz
#78. Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.
Stephen Richards
#79. All forgiveness is self forgiveness.
Wayne Dyer
#80. Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.
Jeffrey Pierce
#81. Forgiveness is a practiced and fervrent process".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#82. Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive. - C. S. LEWIS, MERE CHRISTIANITY
Sheila Walsh
#83. In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
Andy Stanley
#84. Forgiveness is what makes you love when you are not in the mood.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Forgiveness is essential to health, growth, and healing.
Lee L Jampolsky
#86. Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#87. Mistakes are your school of learning therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.
Stephen Richards
#88. Asking forgiveness is not ALWAYS an admission of cowardice and of sin, It is to show that having inner peace is far more important than pride especially if they think that you have wronged them in any way.
The Eldest
#89. Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.
Byron Katie
#90. Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
Tyler Perry
#91. Forgiveness is a very abstract term. It doesn't erase the past. It's not a magical switch you can flip or a stained rug you can just turn over. It's merely a scar that covers the deep, dark gash that hate carved in your soul.
Aly Martinez
#92. We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
T.D. Jakes
#94. Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Gerald G. Jampolsky
#95. Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#96. From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.
Iyanla Vanzant
#98. Forgiveness is the most compassionate way toward the peace.
Debasish Mridha
#99. 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
#100. I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don't even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he's worthy of even considering it, and I just don't see that happening.
P.C. Cast
