I Forgive Those Who Hurt Me Quotes

#1. Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.

Tom Giaquinto

#2. You have to forgive yourself for your past mistakes, and you have to forgive those that hurt you for what they did to you, or you're never going to fully move on.

Jennifer Gracen

#3. They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.

Brian K. Vaughan

#4. It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

Regina Brett

#5. Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

Lex Luger

#6. I hate backbiters; they take my light out. I hate bitter people. Admire those who forgive & people who don't harbor hurt; feel energized...

Assegid Habtewold

#7. Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.

Rajneesh

#8. Just deciding to forgive isn't enough because willpower alone won't work - we need divine strength from God. As He gives us the strength, we need to pray for our enemies and bless them. Praying for those who have hurt us is vital to successfully forgiving them.

Joyce Meyer

#9. If you find yourself ruminating over a hurt and are not ready to forgive, shift to gratitude. Think about all that is good in your life and all that you appreciate.

Stephen G. Post

#10. I think forgiveness is absolutely mandatory. When you don't forgive the only person you are hurting is yourself because you are still harboring the anger and the mental anguish.

John Assaraf

#11. Sometimes you have to forget and forgive. Forgive them for hurting you and forget that they exist!

Jeffree Star

#12. A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Joyce Meyer

#13. 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

#14. But wasn't a best friend also someone you could trust not to hurt you? I had hurt Vicki, yet here she was, opening her home and heart to me again. So maybe being a best friend entailed the ability to forgive.

Barbara Delinsky

#15. 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

#16. Forgive those who have hurt you.

Les Brown

#17. Forgive the people who hurt you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. The word sorry doesn't mean the guilt is there and saying I forgive you doesn't mean the hurt has gone away.

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#19. It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

Willa Cather

#20. It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.

Henry B. Eyring

#21. It's easy to forgive someone for the hurt they've caused you. Forgetting is impossible.

Tara Sivec

#22. The hurt, resentment, the revenge, the pride, and regret are thrown hard and fast like snowballs in the winter. Some major ones hit hard; some minor ones just roll off, while others stick for an elongated time ... as long as we stay in the cold frosty air of not letting go.

Wes Adamson

#23. When you forgive those that hurt you, they no longer have control over your future happiness. Their anger keeps them a prisoner to your past, while you enjoy the present.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. When you forgive, you heal your own anger and hurt and are able to let love lead again. It's like spring cleaning for your heart.

Marci Shimoff

#25. We ought to recognize that our greatest battle is not with one another but with our pain, our problems, and our flaws. To be hurt, yet forgive. To do wrong, but forgive yourself. To depart from this world leaving only love. This is the reason you walk.

Wab Kinew

#26. You like me." "I do not," she lied. "But I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." He was undaunted. "Aye, you like me, lass. I can tell. You called me by my given name and you are frowning, with dewy eyes. I forgive you for being cruel and thoughtless.

Karen Marie Moning

#27. When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.

Virginia H. Pearce

#28. Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

Philip Yancey

#29. Forgiveness is not the act of doing nothing to the one who hurts you. It's easy to do nothing, but hard to forgive.

Ogwo David Emenike

#30. When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over ... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you.

John O'Donohue