Top 47 Power To Forgive Quotes
#1. The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else there is the Art of Acceptance.
Rebecca O'Dwyer Centred Woman
#3. You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.
Napoleon Hill
#4. Just as white light consists of colored rays, so reverence for life contains all the components of ethics: love, kindliness, sympathy, empathy, peacefulness and power to forgive.
Albert Schweitzer
#5. Give me the power to love; give me the power to be kind. Give me the power to forgive; and give me the power to be non-judgmental.
Debasish Mridha
#6. Few of us have the power to heal broken legs, but we all have the power to forgive our neighbor. Yet how often do we do so?
Guy Consolmagno
#7. He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.
Richard Yates
#8. The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.
Jon Krakauer
#9. When we come face-to-face with the tender, forgiving eye of our Redeemer, only then will we gain the power to forgive ourselves - and those who have used us. In light of the forgiveness Christ has offered us, how can we offer less to those who have hurt us?
Leslie Ludy
#10. We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#11. When you tame and domesticate the divine it loses its danger and it's power to forgive you, make you happy, or its power to challenge you, and call you towards new growth.
John O'Donohue
#12. Love grants us the power to forgive, to love when we're hurt, but it also gives us the courage to let go, and the understanding that to love, we love freely - at our own choice.
J.C. Reed
#13. we are born with the power to hear,
we must learn to listen.
we are born with the power to see,
we must learn to understand.
we are born with the power to make mistakes,
we must learn to accept and forgive
Reynolds
#14. If you're brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories ... there's no curse in the world that has any power over you.
Natalie Lloyd
#15. Here it is: if you are God's child, the life force that energizes your thoughts, desires, words, and actions is no longer you; it's Christ! God didn't just forgive you. No, he has come to live inside of you so you will have the power to desire and do what he calls you to do.
Paul David Tripp
#16. Pressure has the power to create a diamond, but it has to be the "right" pressure.
Shannon L. Alder
#17. The more you learn to forgive others; the more you gain the power of love.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done.
I forgive myself, thought Fire. Today, I forgive myself.
Kristin Cashore
#19. Jesus didn't die to forgive me of my sin but leave me in it. He died to forgive and to free me from the power of sin.
Paula Hendricks
#20. The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.
W. H. Auden
#21. The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.
Rick Warren
#23. Three things will make you more powerful: the power of your non-judgmental love, your ability to forgive the unforgivable, and a heart that cares.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.
Suzanne Curchod
#25. Sin is often, if not always, the perversion of something good. In the midst of all our sinning, though, God is willing to forgive us, change us,
and give us a new power to overcome that sin.
Billy Graham
#26. Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history when ignorance is no longer a forgivable offense, a moment when only wisdom has the power to absolve.
Dan Brown
#27. He taught me so much about strength and power. That the man who is truly powerful has the option to forgive, to pardon, to forgo vengeance and violence. It's the weak man that must prove himself such.
A.C. Gaughen
#28. O Sam! cried Frodo. 'What have I said? What have I done? Forgive me! After all you have done. It is the horrible power of the Ring. I wish it had never, never, been found. But don't mind me, Sam. I must carry the burden to the end. It can't be altered. You can't come between me and this doom.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#29. The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you.
Posthumus
William Shakespeare
#30. To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.
Marshall Sylver
#31. Forgiveness is so powerful. You give a person so much power over you when you are unable to let go and simply forgive.
B.M. Hardin
#32. There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader.
Meghan Daum
#33. In order to forgive an offender,
we have first to forgive ourselves,
then we can forgive them.
In this way we are not
helpless victims anymore,
we regain our power,
acting from our peaceful place
of power.
Human Angels
#34. If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance
James Augustus St. John
#35. The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
Philip Sidney
#36. Trust that whatever you are dealing with, whatever doorway to crisis you experience, it is leading you to a greater lesson in liwing where ideally the power of love is what you learn. Forgive, and broadcast your excitement to be alive.
Barbara Marciniak
#37. I just wonder if sheer force of will to forgive can be enough to set things right Because after all, power is one thing. Love is a different creature altogether.
Emily Giffin
#38. Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy." His eyes flickered to Clare. "Even to forgive ...
Catherine Fisher
#39. Forgive to set yourself free; love to set the prisoner free.
Debasish Mridha
#40. We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins. It was by propagating that belief and supporting it with fire that she kept up her temporal power.
Thomas Paine
#41. You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!
Stephen Richards
#42. You have the power to take away someone's happiness by refusing to forgive. That someone is you.
Alan Cohen
#43. Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth.
The Gospel According to Shug
Alice Walker
#44. Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
Tyler Perry
#45. Have you thought that your willingness to forgive is really your affirmation of the power of God to do you good?
Paula Rinehart
#46. It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
Richard Dawkins
#47. When a sinful person meets the holy God in Christ, what he hears is Yes. God, do you love me? Yes. Will you forgive me? Yes. Will you accept me? Yes. Will you help me change? Yes. Will you give me power to serve you? Yes. Will you keep me? Yes. Will you show me your glory? Yes.
John Piper
