Top 65 Giving Forgiveness Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I may not give you the forgiveness you're asking, but i'm giving you forever to make me forgive you.
JCrov
#3. I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.
Alan Cohen
#4. Forgive: if you never know forgiveness,
You'll never know the blessings that God gives.
Rumi
#5. Forgiveness is an act of giving love to those who don't deserve your love.
Debasish Mridha
#6. Forgiveness is, first of ali, a gift I give myself.
Bo Sanchez
#7. God is a good God, and that he's on our side, and that he has great things in store and I believe that as we receive the forgiveness that Christ came and was born and died to give us, then we can live a great life.
Joel Osteen
#8. Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#9. Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
Oprah Winfrey
#10. A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called her, begging her forgiveness and giving some excuse. She told him to get lost, telling him that he only gets one shot with her, and he blew it.
Greg Behrendt
#11. To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.
Charles Spurgeon
#12. If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.
Tyler Perry
#13. Heavenly Father, thank You so much for Your grace. Your forgiveness is SO good that I struggle with believing it at times. Thank You for rescuing me from myself and giving me Your Holy Spirit. Your love is better than life.
Francis Chan
#14. Forgiveness was not easy for someone like me. When it was granted, more often than not, I was just giving someone a second chance to hurt me.
Jamie McGuire
#15. The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God's forgiveness gives us a fresh start.
Ravi Zacharias
#16. Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
Lily Tomlin
#17. God is the ultimate musician. His music transforms your life. The notes of redemption rearrange your heart and restore your life. His songs of forgiveness, grace, reconciliation, truth, hope, sovereignty, and love give you back your humanity and restore your identity.
Paul David Tripp
#18. 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
#19. Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. Don't ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you'll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you.
Yasmin Mogahed
#21. Many forgiven me for my missteps. I know, I'm BIG mouthed. Thank you for giving me a second chance. Because of you, I also forgive others...
Assegid Habtewold
#22. I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past ... but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.
Martha Beck
#23. Forgiveness essentially means giving up your right to make other people pay for the wrongs they have committed against you.
Steve Stephens
#24. Forgiveness is an act of giving; it is an act of love.
Debasish Mridha
#25. Before we can experience the pure & serene state of love, we must learn how to give forgiveness - to ourselves & to others. Have you forgiven yourself?
Debbie Ford
#26. The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
Timothy Keller
#27. Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
Anne Lamott
#28. Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.
Jack Kornfield
#29. Forgiveness isn't an end in itself. The point of forgiveness is to remove the barrier that stands between us and God so that He can give us His Spirit and bring us into His everlasting family.
Darrell Bock
#30. Joy is the true gift of Christmas, and we can communicate this joy simply: with a smile, a kind gesture, a little help, forgiveness. And the joy we give will certainly come back to us.
Pope Benedict XVI
#31. Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.
Maya Angelou
#32. For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
#33. Asking forgiveness involves giving power to the person you're seeking forgiveness from.
Donald Miller
#34. Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.
Trent Shelton
#35. 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
#36. My main focus is to try to give myself time to heal ... Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.
Elin Nordegren
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me." Anonymous
Jessica Wood
#40. Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately
Neem Karoli Baba
#41. I readily give but then I don't forgive easily.
Amit Abraham
#42. Forgiveness is the smell that lavender gives out when you tread on it
Mark Twain
#43. Maybe forgiveness was giving the past less power to hurt me. Or even building new memories that were stronger than the painful ones.
Courtney C. Stevens
#44. Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.
Meher Baba
#45. We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
#46. I rest in the light of forgiveness. I forgive myself and others for that which is done (and better left undone) and also that which is not done (and better if done). I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt. I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#47. Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
Anne Lamott
#48. I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.
George Eliot
#49. We must learn not to give up when requirements are not met or when commitments are broken. To do so is a refusal to allow mistakes to be corrected and a demonstration of an unwillingness to forgive yourself or anyone else who needs forgiveness.
Iyanla Vanzant
#50. 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
#51. Then, when Amelia was married, she found that the giving and receiving of forgiveness was a little like exercise. You didn't enjoy having to do it, but once you did, it got easier - and you learned to need it. Maybe that was what the Bible meant by being "exercised in the
Adina Senft
#52. You can't have real love without operating in forgiveness. Love keeps giving the other person another chance.
Joyce Meyer
#53. 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
#54. truly accepting love, forgiveness, and healing is often much harder than giving it.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#55. It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.
Tori Spelling
#56. Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.
Jeffrey Pierce
#57. 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
#58. But an apology too - you think you're giving something, but you're not. You're really asking for something. You're asking for forgiveness, you're asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.
Deb Caletti
#59. My brilliant psychiatrist Dr. K. had told me that the only way to move on from trauma is forgiveness, giving up the right to hit back harder than you were hit in the first place.
Darrell Hammond
#60. Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
Tyler Perry
#61. It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found its way through the eyes of the Marquesa, then, carefully wrapped in understanding and forgiveness, it sank into her heart.
Thornton Wilder
#62. True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.
Brandon Bays
#63. The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.
Joyce Meyer
#64. God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God's peace.
Marianne Williamson
