Practice Forgiveness Quotes

#1. To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry.

Mac MacKenzie

#2. Always be kind. Every one needs it. Practice forgiveness.

Debasish Mridha

#3. Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice

Diana Gabaldon

#4. We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.

Louise Hay

#5. We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

C.S. Lewis

#6. The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson

#7. 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

#8. Practice love, compassion and forgiveness. Anger is nothing but an anchor that keeps you from moving forward.

Abby Fabiaschi

#9. Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.

Karen Salmansohn

#10. God doesn't care how well you can preach about forgiveness ... what He looks at is your behavior when presented the opportunity to practice it.

Steve Maraboli

#11. You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice.

Sonia Rumzi

#12. If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#13. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

Stephen Richards

#14. Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

Wayne Dyer

#15. Self-forgiveness is a daily practice of the humble, strong and mentally sane. It is an intentional preservation of inner-peace and a reflection of a healthy self-concept.

Shannon Tanner

#16. I feel bitterness is a religion and the people who practice it are the most vehement missionaries there are. There is great strength, beauty and peace in letting things go and practicing forgiveness.

Kristen Ashley

#17. Practice fear and you will fail. Practice love and success will prevail.

Walter E. Jacobson

#18. Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice.

Sharon Salzberg

#19. The practice of understanding, forgiveness, and love is the best practice for a peaceful world.

Debasish Mridha

#20. Practice daily forgiveness and gratitude meditations in relationship to both pleasant and unpleasant memories. Listen to your life song among the insights that hum through the mind.

Stephen Levine

#21. Like forgiveness, it was not a thing once learned and then comfortably put aside but a matter of constant practice - to accept the notion of one's own mortality, and yet live fully, was a paradox worthy of Socrates.

Diana Gabaldon

#22. Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Gerald G. Jampolsky

#23. We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.

Billy Graham

#24. As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.

Agnes Sanford

#25. Forgiveness is a virtue society pressures us to practice.

Ben Tolosa

#26. The practice of radical forgiveness, the extension of compassion-this is grace.

Jiulio Consiglio

#27. A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer.

Bell Hooks

#28. Consistently practice love and everything that falls under the category of love: gratitude, laughter, friendship, joy, forgiveness, acceptance, peace, and trust.

Renee Marino

#29. I believe one of the most important reasons I am here today is to practice forgiveness and to learn the power of it as a gift to others and myself. By focusing on forgiveness in my life today, I am promoting my healing and lessening my regrets.

Lisa J. Shultz

#30. The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#31. To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Isaac Watts

#32. Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance.

Edgar Cayce

#33. 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