Top 100 Past Forgiveness Quotes
#1. forgiveness helps people control their emotions so they maintain good judgment. They do not waste precious energy trapped in anger and hurt over things they can do nothing about. Forgiveness acknowledges we can't change the past. Forgiveness allows us not to stay stuck in the past.
Fred Luskin
#2. Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.
Kent Nerburn
#3. Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.
Jeanette Winterson
#4. The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.
Stephen Richards
#5. It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.
Ellis Peters
#6. If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
Stephen Richards
#7. If you want to master your past at some point in time you'll have to learn forgiveness.
Chris Vonada
#8. The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#9. 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
#10. Forgiveness is Truth itself. It is Righteousness, it is the Veda. It is the supreme virtue in this world ...
Sathya Sai Baba
#11. 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
#12. There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler.
George MacDonald
#14. The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.
Stephen Richards
#15. 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
#16. You need to understand something. Forgiveness isn't an emotion. It's an action, and it's a choice. It's the choice to not let the past affect how you feel about her.
Elizabeth Finn
#17. A life lived mired in resentment is one that is lived primarily in the past and this is never one that is filled with joy.
Taite Adams
#21. Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free.
Asa Don Brown
#23. We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.
John Rucyahana
#24. Ask God for forgiveness, and leave your regrets in the past!
Rihanna
#25. Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
Abraham Lincoln
#26. South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.
Nelson Mandela
#27. The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.
Louis Zamperini
#28. Past experiences are doubtful food for Christians; a present coming to Christ alone can give us joy and comfort.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#29. I will look at the past, but I will not stare at it.
M. Spio
#31. Holding on to weight (i.e. anger, bitterness, the past, hatred) will not only hold you back, but also block your blessings. You've got to let some things go to move forward.
Yvonne Pierre
#32. Through forgiveness, which essentially means recognizing the insubstantiality of the past and allowing the present moment to be as it is, the miracle of transformation happens not only within but also without.
Eckhart Tolle
#33. 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
#34. Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment - allow it to be as it is - then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.
Eckhart Tolle
#35. 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
#36. forgiveness of others allows us to adjust our feelings towards the past, assuages our anger. Our
Alexander McCall Smith
#37. Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.
Stephen Richards
#38. Human beings do terrible things to each other and the tragic thing about it all is the way the remembrance of past hurt can rob us of our future and become the narrative of our lives.
Richard Holloway
#39. The same way you forgave yourself all those other times you made her miserable, Novak. You ask for her forgiveness and when you find that she loves you enough to see past what you've done, that's when you'll be able to forgive yourself.
Bella Forrest
#40. But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
Abraham Lincoln
#41. We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.
Nelson Mandela
#42. In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.
Stephen Richards
#43. Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.
Stephen Richards
#44. 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
#45. Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.
Amalie Howard
#46. When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.
Stephen Richards
#47. 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
#48. Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#49. Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
Anne Lamott
#50. 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Harlan Coben
#51. The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.
Stephen Richards
#52. Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.
Tim Fargo
#53. Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.
Stephen Richards
#54. Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past - not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
Desmond Tutu
#56. 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
#57. Don't dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#58. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
Stephen Richards
#59. The world is full of victims; don't add to the growing culture of "I've a story to tell", well not unless it's a story to help others overcome situations or as a warning.
Stephen Richards
#60. Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
Stephen Levine
#61. One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.
T.D. Jakes
#62. Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
T.D. Jakes
#63. Forgiveness is about letting go of the past and not holding on to it
Oprah Winfrey
#64. It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
Alan Paton
#65. Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
Stephen Richards
#66. The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.
John Sentamu
#67. 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
#68. Forgiveness is a process of accepting the past and welcoming the mysterious beauty of the future.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.
Stephen Richards
#70. As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
Stephen Richards
#71. In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.
Billy Graham
#72. Letting go of the past does not mean that we should try to forget everything that has happened to us and not learn anything from our previous thinking patterns and actions. Letting go simply means that we do not allow the past to control our current thoughts and actions.
Gudjon Bergmann
#73. When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.
Stephen Richards
#74. To forgive is to be free from past resentment to welcome the dawn of peace.
Debasish Mridha
#75. I want to move past my own unkindness with love, and know the reckless love of Jesus, and extend that love - that unconditional, always-believing-the-best, full-of-forgiveness-and-grace love.
Kara Tippetts
#76. When you forgive, you do not change the past, but you change your future".
Camilla Dorand
#77. Radical Forgiveness is much more than the mere letting go of the past. It is the key to creating the life that we want, and the world that we want. It is the key to our own happiness and the key to world peace. It is no longer an option. It is our destiny.
Colin Tipping
#78. The consequences of the past are always with us, and half the hostilities tearing the world apart could be resolved today were we to allow the forgiveness of sins to alter these consequences ... if we were to say of ourselves, 'The hostility stops here.
William Sloane Coffin
#79. If you feel like a failure in any area of your life, then you are in need of some self-forgiveness.
Yancy Lael
#80. If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
Robert Penn Warren
#81. Because I have forgiven my past, and God has forgiven my past, no person on earth can make me denounce my past. It's what made me who I am today.
Julie-Anne
#82. Forgiveness is what we all need to forget the past, even if we
Chris Colfer
#83. Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
Ted Chiang
#84. Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Lewis B. Smedes
#85. All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.
Stephen Richards
#86. When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.
Stephen Richards
#87. By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU.
Stephen Richards
#88. I think all people have things in their past they need forgiveness for. In their present as well. And they need to be extended grace for what they regret.
James L. Rubart
#89. Don't remain in bondage to the negative energy produced by past pain and disappointment. Let forgiveness be your freedom.
Stephan Labossiere
#90. 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
#92. Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
Stephen Richards
#93. Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.
David Vann
#94. Dipping into the pitcher of the past, his father often said, can only sour the cup of the present.
Gerald N. Lund
#95. Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness.
Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust has to do with future behavior.
Rick Warren
#96. I can't make you forgive me. I don't deserve your forgiveness. I can't change the past. All I can do is give you what you want. If this is what you want, I'll walk away, Blaire. It'll kill me but I'll do it.
Abbi Glines
#97. 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
#98. It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#99. Letting go doesn't just mean letting go of the past, but letting go of an unknown future; and embracing NOW.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#100. God forgives us, as - when - we forgive them who injure us - and ourselves. These last weeks I think I have understood what many times in the past I thought I knew - but we never know - we never reach the end of understanding - the understanding of God - the mystery of his love ...
Lucy Beckett
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