Top 100 Pain Forgiveness Quotes
#1. I get it! Something painful happens and that hate flares within and sticks around. Hate keeps the pain; forgiveness let's it go. Hate breeds poison, forgiveness breeds peace. When you chain yourself to hate, you chain yourself to pain.
Tony Curl
#2. Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self.
Vivian Amis
#3. We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.
Stephen Richards
#4. Forgiveness isn't for the person making the error. It's for the person wronged. It's so you can move on without the pain, anguish, resentment. You need to forgive and mean it. Only then will you be able to move on.
Leddy Harper
#5. 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
#8. When we forgive someone, we don't pretend that the harm didn't happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness.
Sharon Salzberg
#9. 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
#10. Pain will never lessen without forgiveness, it will only manifest as anger and harden into resentment or bitterness.
Tiffany L. Jackson
#11. This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.
Stephen Richards
#12. Relationships only get to exist as long as they keep breathing in the air of mutual forgiveness, and he and I have found an uncommon grace. Grace can strike when you are in great pain and light you with the greatest hope. I
Ann Voskamp
#13. The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.
Stephen Richards
#14. But forgiveness ... I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice.
Libba Bray
#16. Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim
letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.
C.R. Strahan
#17. 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
#18. I hated myself, and the part of me that was cowardly wished for a simple solution: an exchange of pain for forgiveness. But life didn't work that way, and fucking up was forever.
Alexis Hall
#20. After the dead are buried, after the physical pain of grief has become a permanent wound in the soul, then comes the transcendent and common bond of human suffering, and with that comes forgiveness, and with forgiveness comes love.
Andre Dubus
#21. Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.
T. B. Joshua
#22. But peace isn't determined by circumstances outside us. Peace stems from forgiveness. Pain doesn't stem from the love we're denied by others, but rather from the love that we deny them.
Marianne Williamson
#23. 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
#24. Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.
Maggie Cox
#25. 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
#26. Forgiveness was work, Eduardo told victims' families
but so, then, was love, and deciding what was right, and defending it. Recusing yourself from judgment so you won't be tainted by the aggressor's sin is the same as turning away from empathy so you won't be touched by the victim's pain.
Jennifer DuBois
#27. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.
L.R. Knost
#30. You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!
Stephen Richards
#31. Burying themselves in his arm was more about feeling his love in the confusion, in the difficulty, than it was about having moved past it.
Donald Miller
#34. In marriage, insult arises again and again; and pain has to be not only endured, but consented to; and the amount of forgiveness that it necessitates is incredible and exhausting.
Glenway Wescott
#35. The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.
Timothy Keller
#36. Closing her eyes for a moment against the pain and loss, Carrie asked quietly, "And what if I don't feel any forgiveness for her?" Softly, Mattie whispered,
Suzanne Woods Fisher
#37. Sometimes the smallest things are so damn unforgivable. Maybe because they aren't small - they only seem that way to someone else. You never know what someone holds scared until it's too late.
James Anderson
#38. Your soul finds ego in fear. Your mind finds ache in pain but your heart finds love when free.
Kemi Sogunle
#39. Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat of their pain is a response to the beat of yours, they have become truthful in their feelings ... they have moved a step closer to a truthful reunion.
Lewis B. Smedes
#41. Forgiveness. If only more people could do it. Them maybe there'd be less pain in the world.
Jessica Sorensen
#42. Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
Sharon Salzberg
#43. 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
#45. The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.
John Connolly
#46. I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
Khaled Hosseini
#47. Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.
Suzanne Somers
#49. Once you wrong a woman, beware. They'll skin you alive. Might cry over your pain, nurse you back to health after, but they'll take you to the cleaners as sure as I'm standing here. You should have begged for forgiveness for being born before you showed up unannounced.
K.F. Breene
#50. No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.
Boyd K. Packer
#51. I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.
Ryan Winfield
#53. 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
#54. If her past were your past, her pain your pain, her level of consciousness your level of consciousness, you would think and act exactly as she does. With this realization comes forgiveness, compassion and peace.
Eckhart Tolle
#55. Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life. Corallie Buchanan, Watch Out! Godly Women on the Loose
Suzanne Eller
#56. But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.
Jack Kornfield
#57. The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.
Richard Rohr
#58. I am betrayed and played but right now im feeling nothing pain but to forgive, it's because I love God too much that I can't hate.
AKA
#59. The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.
Stephen Richards
#60. The depth of heartache and love, hurt and forgiveness we had experienced since the last time we were here. And my heart filled with gratitude for all of it, even the pain, because it had brought us here, to this very moment.
Mia Sheridan
#61. I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy.
Tyler Perry
#62. How to tell her in words, then, what he had learned himself by pain and grace? That only by forgiveness could she forget - and that forgiveness was not a single act, but a matter of constant practice. Perhaps
Diana Gabaldon
#63. Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation.
Phil Cousineau
#64. The pain we cause will haunt our memories and eat at our souls. I do not seek forgiveness, only the emptiness of death.
Harley King
#65. When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
Veronica Roth
#66. The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.
Stephen Richards
#67. One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.
Alan Cohen
#69. The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
John Stott
#70. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.
Stephen Richards
#73. Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE!
Dana Arcuri
#75. Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#76. Why so many wounded people look for forgiveness from who has injured them?
Luigina Sgarro
#77. Forgive for yourself and for the peace it will bring to your pain.
Bryant McGill
#78. When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.
Stephen Richards
#79. Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
Richard Rohr
#80. 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
#81. We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this past. Now sense that you can release this burden of pain by gradually extending forgiveness as your heart is ready.
Jack Kornfield
#82. In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive.
Ogwo David Emenike
#83. Forgiveness does not mean that we will cease to hurt. The wounds are deep, and we may hurt for a very long time. Just because we continue to experience emotional pain does not mean that we failed to forgive.
Richard Foster
#84. We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!
Stephen Richards
#85. Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
Stephen Richards
#86. Don't remain in bondage to the negative energy produced by past pain and disappointment. Let forgiveness be your freedom.
Stephan Labossiere
#87. What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense. You will be able to smile at how you overcome the tears of pain.
Stephen Richards
#88. May the memory of the pain leave your mind instantly, and the memory of the person fill your heart forever
When anger dies, forgiveness is born
Love is like water - you can drown instantly, or swim in it forever
Karlene Logan
#89. Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.
T.D. Jakes
#90. I recognize that by saying that I'm deeply sorry, it might not be enough and sufficient to address the pain and the hurt that I have caused you. Therefore, I want to ask for your forgiveness for my actions, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.
Marion Jones
#91. But I was learning forgiveness didn't have to be about granting absolution for sins but being able to find freedom from pain.
Heather Topham Wood
#92. Forgiveness enables me to walk away from that pain, the loneliness and suffering.
Sharon E. Rainey
#93. 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
#94. All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
Richard Rohr
#95. What we teach our children is that earth is your mother that provides; she's a giver. So, please first ask forgiveness from the mother earth before you step on to it and cause it pain.
Narendra Modi
#96. Instantaneous forgiveness can bring longstanding self-preservation, not to mention a cheaper Ralph's bill on Rolaids.
Ace Antonio Hall
#97. Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.
Bryant McGill
#98. Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.
James E. Faust
#99. Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.
Desmond Tutu
#100. People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.
Vivian Amis
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