Top 97 Free Forgiveness Quotes
#1. What like the apprehension of free forgiveness (and that apprehension must come in through a sight of the greatness of sin, and of inability to do any thing towards satisfaction), to engage the heart of a rebel to love his prince, and to submit to his laws?
John Bunyan
#2. Forgiveness is what sets us free ... Forgiveness= freedom
Shelley Hitz
#3. Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.
Robert Farrar Capon
#4. Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.
Charlotte Bronte
#5. No matter how long you behest, to the fruit draped tree.
It will do you no best, until a shingle you free.
Shahzad Ashraf
#6. Forgive to set yourself free; love to set the prisoner free.
Debasish Mridha
#7. 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
#8. In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself.
Sharon Weil
#9. Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.
Tracie Peterson
#10. If you wish good on someone with your whole heart, you cannot hold onto feelings of unforgiveness. You will be free.
C S Areson
#11. I wonder if the priest knows that while he's up here charging for forgiveness, Mary's back there handing it out for free.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#12. It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#13. Compassion does not have to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness does not imply friendship. Understanding why someone has inflicted pain on us is how we set ourselves free of the past, not how we excuse someone's behaviour so they can continue to abuse us.
Vironika Tugaleva
#14. Forgiveness is the key that can unshackle us from a past that will not rest in the grave of things over and done with. As long as our minds are captive to the memory of having been wronged, they are not free to wish for reconciliation with the one who wronged us.
Lewis B. Smedes
#15. Sometimes, an apology sets free a part of you that you didn't even realize was caged ... and forgiveness destroys the cage.
Sanjo Jendayi
#16. 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
#17. You're only human.
Let's break free of this gravity of judgment
And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.
India.Arie
#18. Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.
Dennis E. Adonis
#19. The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision ... You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.
Lewis B. Smedes
#20. Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
#21. If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can't set us free of it. He won't take those things by force.
Dawn M. Turner
#22. When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls.
Donald L. Hicks
#23. Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.
Timothy Keller
#25. 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
#26. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was yourself.
Diane Moody
#27. I free myself from hatred through forgiveness and love.
Paulo Coelho
#28. Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#29. At times we must forgive others even when they don't deserve it. We forgive them because we deserve it. Free yourself.
DeWayne Owens
#30. To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.
Richard Paul Evans
#31. Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
Corrie Ten Boom
#32. The past is what imprisons us. There are some things in this world that can never be undone. But they can be faced. They can be forgiven. And if we hold on to that, then there is a chance for us. A chance that someday. . .we will be free.
John Burley
#33. Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have "forever" repercussions.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#34. Sometimes we want to keep the battle going...until at last we we cut ourselves free. I don't forgive you to give to you, I forgive you to give to me.
Kate McGahan
#35. And with the Savior's passing came Satan's sure defeat
Christ whispered, "It is finished," for payment was complete.
I could not earn salvation, it's been dispensed for free
And mercy's gates would open, as He has died for me.
Joyce Rachelle
#36. Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.
Louise Hay
#37. Your soul finds ego in fear. Your mind finds ache in pain but your heart finds love when free.
Kemi Sogunle
#38. Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind ... And each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again ... Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory Forgiving sets you free.
Lewis B. Smedes
#39. Forgiveness is a process that we have to learn to act upon daily. Anger is weakened by forgiveness. When you forgive, you free yourself from carrying around the torment that the offense has caused you.
E'yen A. Gardner
#40. Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on.
Charles F. Glassman
#41. You ask me to forgive you? I'm thanking you. You finally loved me in that moment, and that love set me free, released me from my sworn duty.
Leland Dirks
#42. I guess we'll never know exactly what ... the reasons behind the losses we experience in this life. But being angry doesn't make them any less devastating. It only robs us of the happiness and love we can experience. Only forgiveness can set us free.
Christene Houston
#43. Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you're setting free is yourself.
Darrell Calkins
#44. Humility and ascetic hardship free a man from all sin, for the one cuts out the passions of the soul, the other those of the body. This is what the blessed David indicates when he prays to God, saying, "Look on my humility and my toil, and forgive all my sins" (Ps. 25:18).
Maximus The Confessor
#45. Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer.
Gautama Buddha
#46. Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#47. Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.
Edward M. Hallowell
#48. Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.
Shannon Wiersbitzky
#51. Life's too short to not forgive those who hurt us. I trust you to do what's right. Right by your own heart. ... Forgiveness sets you free.
Cheryl Kaye Tardif
#52. You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!
Stephen Richards
#53. Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
Max Lucado
#54. The good shall prevail in the end, the truth shall be the rule and the Cameroonian soul shall be free," Hans said in an emotion-choked voice, "However, we should never lose our heads; we should always be prepared to forgive all the repentant souls.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#55. Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck. Is
Sam Harris
#56. We dangle by a flimsy thread,
Our little lives are grains of sand:
The Cosmos is a tiny sphere
Held in the hollow of God's hand.
Give up your anger and your spite,
And imitate the Deer, the Tree;
In sweet Forgiveness find your joy,
For it alone can set you free.
Margaret Atwood
#57. Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.
Karen Kingsbury
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. All they had to do was let go, and they'd be free. But they held on.
Dyan Cannon
#61. 1. If something is worthwhile doing - do it well. Don't waste your and other's time.
2. Life is brief - never postpone forgiveness when in your power - it may set you free.
Danie Botha
#62. We will find it increasingly difficult to believe that we've been set free from sin, from the law's power to condemn, and that God's smile is resting upon us if we continually give ourselves over to what we know we should avoid. Sin strips our faith, and it leads to ultimate deadness in our lives.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#63. Forgiving other people does not mean that they will get away with what they did to you, it means that You are set free from the pain they have caused you. Forgiveness is the hardest lesson we are here to learn to master, but it is possible with time and patience.
Jeanette Coron
#64. And I didn't know if the forgiveness itself was light, glittery stuff that showered down and absolved a person and set them free, or if, instead, it was heavy, cumbersome, a new debt, a currency that was continuously renewed no matter how much was paid out.
Jane Hamilton
#65. Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free.
Asa Don Brown
#66. When you forgive yourself, you free yourself from memories which aren't serving you anymore.
Hina Hashmi
#67. Forgiveness is a gift to myself. I forgive, and I set myself free.
Louise Hay
#68. The Reckoning
The time has come for Retribution
A time for Redemption, A time for Forgiveness
A time for Renewal, A time to prevail
My love will set you free my darling.
Our love, forever bound.
-SL Ross
S.L. Ross
#69. It would seem that when we are sinned against, when someone else does us harm, we are in some way linked to that sin, connected to that mistreatment like a chain. And our anger, fear, or resentment doesn't free us at all. It just keeps us chained.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#70. The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.
Gerald Jampolsky
#71. Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE!
Dana Arcuri
#72. Forgiveness sets the prisoner free. And realizing that prisoner was you. That's what forgiveness does. It sets you free.
Victoria Osteen
#73. Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.
Paulo Coelho
#74. We have to hear again and again who God is for us and what God has done on our behalf. We must free each other from bondage through our confession and forgiveness.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#75. 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
#76. Forgiveness is the one gift you don't give to others. Rather, it is the gift you give yourself, so you can finally be free.
Shannon L. Alder
#77. Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.
Mother Teresa
#78. Not only truth can set you free, but forgiveness as well.
Auliq Ice
#79. The Aramaic word for "forgive" means literally to "untie." Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings; free yourself from that person's ugliness.
Sharon E. Rainey
#80. People always assume that the church's primary business is to teach morality. But it isn't; it's to proclaim grace, forgiveness, and the free party for all. It's to announce the reconciling relationship of God to everybody and to invite them simply to believe it and celebrate it.
Robert Farrar Capon
#81. Forgiveness is not cheap even though it's free.
Johnny Hunt
#82. To forgive is to be free from past resentment to welcome the dawn of peace.
Debasish Mridha
#83. The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.
Bill Vaughan
#84. Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.
David Simon
#85. Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.
Bryant McGill
#86. The first and often only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness ... When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.
Lewis B. Smedes
#87. I know that within you there is an energy of forgiveness that forgives me and sets me free. My words and actions have no power over you. You are free and I am free. All is well between our spirits. Peace is the order of the day.
Michael Bernard Beckwith
#88. When you are unable to forgive someone, you deny yourself a life free of anger and hate.
Winsome Campbell-Green
#89. God's forgiveness doesn't come cheaply, nor is it a ticket to do what we jolly well please because there's a get out of jail free card at the end. Instead, it is the life-changing embrace of love that welcomes us when we've no reason to expect it. We cannot fail deeply enough for God to give us up.
Peggy Haymes
#90. When you forgive somebody, it's not so much for them as it is for you. You need to be free from that. And you need to rise above that.
Lacey Sturm
#91. When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Catherine Ponder
#92. I don't deserve her forgiveness. I never deserved her to begin with, so now she'll be free to find security and happiness without having to worry about the broken man she married who can never be fixed.
Tara Sivec
#93. 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
#94. If someone puts you through hell, don't be mad or bitter about it, because the thing that will free you from that hell is forgiveness.
Jeanette Coron
#95. Forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to be had in it.
Tracie Peterson
#96. Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.
Tim Fargo
#97. Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.
Stormie O'martian
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