Top 100 Forgiving Love Quotes
#1. know that neither to have the child nor not to have the child is without the possibility of tragic consequences for everybody yet (b) be brave in knowing also that not even that can put us beyond the forgiving love of God.
Frederick Buechner
#2. Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.
Andrew Murray
#3. Unlike a fairy tale, the parable provides no happy ending. Instead, it leaves us face to face with one of life's hardest spiritual choices: to trust or not to trust in God's all-forgiving love.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#4. Grace means primarily the free, forgiving love of God in Christ to sinners and the operation of that love in the lives of Christians.
A.M. Hunter
#5. My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#6. Love is hard. It's forgiving your best friend when you want to shove her away.
Liz Reinhardt
#7. When love comes easy, forgiving is hard and forgetting even harder.
Shampa Sharma
#8. Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.
Melody Beattie
#9. All we have to do is to receive what we are given ... We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
Vernon Howard
#10. Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving God. Just
Pope Francis
#11. Be Kind. Be Generous. Be Helpful. Show Mercy. Be Forgiving. Give Love.
Be Thankful. Be Cheerful. Do Acts Of Kindness for Those Who Can Never Repay you. It all helps to brighten humanity!
Timothy Pina
#12. Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#13. Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.
Wayne Dyer
#15. Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.
Gail Tsukiyama
#16. A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking
Helen Steiner Rice
#17. My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.
Billy Graham
#18. Help, love, forgive, and create beauty.
Misty Upham
#19. Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
C.S. Lewis
#20. I've found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason.
Marci Shimoff
#21. Love can heal the sickness of all malice by forgiving others of preconceived hatred and prejudice.
Colishia S. Benjamin
#22. I have grown more forgiving. I accept that not everything is for me. I'm not as in love with my own opinions as I used to be. And anger is not something that comes to me as quickly as it once did.
Ira Kaplan
#23. No. You hurt people because you didn't have any idea what love really was. You were trying to understand it in the only way you knew how. It's horrible, yes. But it's forgivable. I forgive you. I forgive a thousand worse things you may have done. I can forgive anything.
Laurelin Paige
#24. Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.
Lewis B. Smedes
#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. Our hearts do not need logic.
They can love and forgive and accept that which our minds cannot comprehend.
Hearts understand in ways minds cannot.
Lois W.
#27. Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.
Donna Goddard
#28. I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.
Marlo Morgan
#29. Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
Rajneesh
#30. We often lose our tempers not with those who are actually to blame; just with those who love us enough to forgive us our foul moods.
Alain De Botton
#31. When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.
Rob Bell
#32. That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you'll be free.
Louise Hay
#33. I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.
Lord Chesterfield
#34. Every one of us can blame somebody for something that has happened in our lives. But don't waste your time. What we need most is a steady stream of love flowing among us. Love that quickly forgives, willingly overlooks, and refuses to take offense.
Charles R. Swindoll
#35. Every day, I take steps to resolve all my karmic ties, live with intention, smile and laugh often, express my love, and act on what brings me fulfillment. Why wait until we have one foot in the grave to suddenly become spiritual, forgiving, and at peace with the world?
Alaric Hutchinson
#36. Forgive what you do not approve & love me for this energetic exertion of my talent
William Blake
#37. I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a wrathful God at all.
Susan Sarandon
#39. By becoming forgiving, fill yourself with love, and then, with profound kindness, give it away.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Sometime, it's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.
Mark Lawrence
#41. By conceiving of love as biologically inevitable, key to the continuation of the species, Schopenhauer's theory of the will invites us to adopt a more forgiving stance towards the eccentric behaviour to which love so often makes us subject.
Alain De Botton
#42. God is continually, literally, second-by-second covering our sin under His Son's blood and forgiving us our sins. God cannot love us unless He forgives us and cannot forgive us without a commitment to love us.
Dan B. Allender
#43. Always be forgiving and kind especially toward your enemies.
Debasish Mridha
#44. I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.
Ayumi Hamasaki
#45. Love isn't about trusting you'll never hurt me. It's about being sure you'll never do it on purpose and forgiving you when you unintentionally do.
L.L. Kellogg
#46. Life is a miracle thus don't let it slip away
You were given a heart and a purpose for reason
so love and cherish each day
See the beauty in everything and know everything is beautiful
Be gracious and forgiving and follow the examples
of Gods only son.
Sandile Sean Mntla
#47. 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
#49. She was the most loyal, forgiving, headstrong, passionate woman he'd ever met in his life, and he was madly in love with her
Jennifer Probst
#51. Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers
#52. To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.
Eknath Easwaran
#53. I don't think I will ever believe I deserve you, but I love you more than I can even describe. I don't know if I can ever ... be better for you, but it you're willing to keep forgiving me for being a complete idiot, I'm willing to keep trying.
Shay Savage
#54. You become charming, loving, kind, and generous when you are forgiving.
Debasish Mridha
#55. Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.
Aristotle.
#56. We can all learn to conquer hatred through love -drawing on the power released through the practice of meditation to throw all our weight, all our energy, and all our will on the side of what is patient, forgiving, and selfless in ourselves and others.
Eknath Easwaran
#57. Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.
Marvin J. Ashton
#58. Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.
Jodi Picoult
#59. Some say it should come easy if it's real love but that's just not true. Love is never easy - love hurts sometimes. It causes insecurities and jealousies. Relationships take work - love takes work. And happiness requires forgiving others. I forgive you.
A.D. Justice
#60. The love of Christ fills our hearts and makes us always able to forgive!
Pope Francis
#61. If we want other people to give us something that only God can give, we become a demon. We say, "Love me!" and before you know it we become violent and demanding and manipulative. It's so important that we keep forgiving one another - not once in a while, but every moment of life.
Henri Nouwen
#62. So whether or not you can find it in your heart to love me again, I needed to thank you for saving me. And if there is any part of you capable of forgiving me, you know where I'll be. Tonight, next year, the next, for eternity. The choice is yours.
Colleen Hoover
#63. For imagine having somebody beside you day and night loving you and forgiving you and petting you forever and ever, that must be a better description of hell than being put into a boiling lake or cauldron of ice that burnt your black.
James Purdy
#64. When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you're free.
Bernie Siegel
#65. Though he wouldn't take it or offer it back, she gave. She squeezed it into him and held it there. She accepted him. She loved him in his wretchedness, kissed his ragged cheek, and called him /father./
A.S. Peterson
#66. In Christianity, it's very clear that the god we worship is equal to love. The bible says, 'God is love'. The god we worship was sacrificed, crucified on the cross, tortured, spit on, and was still forgiving. This is our highest example.
Mosab Hassan Yousef
#67. Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial.
Francis Of Assisi
#68. For still in mutual sufferance lies
The secret of true living;
Love scarce is love that never knows
The sweetness of forgiving.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#69. Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them.
Colleen Hoover
#70. Above all, I was shown that love is supreme. I saw that truly without love we are nothing. We are here to help each other, to care for each other, to understand, forgive, and serve one another. We are here to have love for every person born on earth.
Betty Eadie
#71. For a great life it is a necessity to be kind, but for the greatness of life it is essential to be forgiving.
Debasish Mridha
#72. I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you, God's willing to forgive you, God can change you, and Christ and his kingdom is open to anybody who repents and by faith receives him as lord and savior.
Billy Graham
#73. I like to think of love as being slightly more forgiving than time.
Cath Crowley
#74. When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.
Saint John Chrysostom
#75. Life is forgiving and amazing. Embrace it. Cultivate it. Make it yours!
Amanda Mosher
#76. Love is daily admitting to yourself, your spouse, and God that you are not able to love this way without God's protecting, providing, forgiving, rescuing, and delivering grace.
Paul David Tripp
#77. To live is to love,to serve, to forgive. Love the One, love and serve humanity. To learn to love oneself and to love is to learn to forgive
Tariq Ramadan
#78. We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can.
Ken Wilber
#79. Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#80. Just like in any relationship, things changed. We changed. We both made mistakes and we both learned a lot. We may love each other differently, but maybe that is a good thing. Maybe it is more forgiving and more mature, or maybe it is just different.
Chris Kyle
#81. The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
Bill Hicks
#82. You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.
Corrie Ten Boom
#83. A godlike person is always giving and forgiving but not expecting anything.
Debasish Mridha
#84. Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.
Swami Vivekananda
#85. Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was.
Marianne Williamson
#86. Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
Jack Kerouac
#87. Do you really want to know the simplest secret to a happy life and a positive attitude? It's believing that God is on your side; that He's actively working on your behalf, that he loves you and is capable of completely forgiving you.
Toni Sorenson
#88. The kiss he laid on her was caring, tender, and forgiving, and the kiss she gave back was convincing, trusting, and fiery with love.
Lisa Gillis
#89. The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#90. The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them
Mother Teresa
#91. Auntie An-mei had cried before she left for China, thinking she would make her brother very rich and happy by communist standards. But when she got home, she cried to me that everyone had a palm out and she was the only one who left with an empty hand.
Amy Tan
#92. When he [Christ] says 'Forgive your enemies', it is not for the sake of the enemy but for one's own sake that he says so, and because Love is more beautiful than Hate.
Oscar Wilde
#93. The entire hope of fallen humanity rests on this one thing - that there is a Savior who is eternally steadfast in redeeming, forgiving, reconciling, transforming, and delivering love.
Paul David Tripp
#94. Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
Judy Collins
#96. What you post on Facebook represents you, it can make you look bitter or better, forgiving or frustrated, resentful or rejoicing, choose wisely.
Rob Liano
#97. Love can be many things. Cruel. Exhilarating. Deceitful. Jealous. Hateful. But at its purest form, love can be redeeming - forgiving.
Mia Asher
#98. Think about a dog's ability to forgive. This to me is love.
Cesar Millan
#99. When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
Oswald Chambers
#100. As we pass through the trials of life, let us keep an eternal perspective, let us not complain, let us become even more prayerful, let us serve others, and let us forgive one another. As we do this, 'all things [will] work together for good to [us] that love God.'
James B. Martino
