Top 100 Quotes About Forgiveness
#1. Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God!
Billy Graham
#2. True forgiveness for me has been and is a progression of faltering baby steps through a storm of flying debris.
Gwendolyn M. Plano
#3. Revenge is a bad policy if you gain nothing out of it, but under the same circumstances, forgiveness is even a worse one.
M.F. Moonzajer
#4. Forgiveness is really just another word for freedom.
Julie Lessman
#5. Understanding Subtle & Not-So-Subtle Motivations, Helps Grow Consideration, Empathy & Compassion, Which Leads to Forgiveness
Miriam Sachael
#6. As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.
Sharon Salzberg
#8. If you expect honesty, be honest. If you expect forgiveness, forgive. If you expect a whole person, you have to be a whole person.
Kristen Crockett
#9. repeat after me:
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.
- except maybe yourself.
Amanda Lovelace
#10. Forgiveness is one of the keys to moving forward because if you don't forgive, you are stuck in the past.
Terraine Francois
#11. Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, "Today I am going to be rich," does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best.
Stephen Richards
#12. Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.
Sara Paddison
#13. The ultimate proof of total forgiveness takes place when we sincerely petition the Father to let those who have hurt us off the hook - even if they have hurt not only us, but also those close to us.
R.T. Kendall
#14. Many worlds, but one God
His power is the sun in every land,
His forgiveness the moon watching over every night,
His love the star in every corner of the heavens.
Laura Whitcomb
#15. We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
T.D. Jakes
#17. When you hear the haunting melody of guilt and shame, drown it out with God's song of forgiveness and love.
Katy Kauffman
#18. My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#19. Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation.
Helen Schucman
#20. Justification has so dominated the landscape of Christian thought that adoption has been marginalized. We don't hear much about our adoption at all. We hear a lot about forgiveness, but very little about the staggering reality of our inclusion in Jesus' relationship with his Father in the Spirit.
C. Baxter Kruger
#21. To begin loving people today, we must close the door on the past. And that cannot happen without forgiveness! Forgive those who have hurt you - for your sake, not because they deserve it.
Rick Warren
#22. To violate the law of love is to live in un-forgiveness
Sunday Adelaja
#23. Forgive: if you never know forgiveness,
You'll never know the blessings that God gives.
Rumi
#24. Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#26. (Evil people) do not believe in forgiveness. Their transgressions are either punished or not punished. That is the only result that matters.
Daniel McHugh
#27. Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven.
C.S. Lewis
#29. Forgiveness is a process that we have to learn to act upon daily. Anger is weakened by forgiveness. When you forgive, you free yourself from carrying around the torment that the offense has caused you.
E'yen A. Gardner
#30. There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.
Erma Bombeck
#31. Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.
Maxwell Maltz
#32. I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.
Anne Lamott
#33. Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.
R.A. Torrey
#34. So if you have over-indulged during the holidays, for example, please don't beat yourself up, but rather have compassion and forgiveness and perhaps, even try the Ho'oponono technique.
Marci Shimoff
#35. If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
Timothy Keller
#36. He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.
Richard Yates
#37. All too often, we sanitize and simplify forgiveness, when in fact it's an arduous, exhausting task---messy, risky, and unpredictable.
Marina Cantacuzino
#38. Forgiveness is the best gift of love and kindness that we can give to our enemies.
Debasish Mridha
#39. I believe that forgiveness is a processes. You might be able to release some offenses right away, but some offenses hurt deeper. You have to choose to let go and let God.
Anna M. Aquino
#40. Forgiveness and grace are like oxygen: we can't offer it to others unless we put our masks on first.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#41. The act of extending forgiveness and asking for forgiveness must come from our heart.
Sara Dormon
#42. The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
Dar Williams
#43. 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
#44. Forgiveness isn't something given... It's something earned. What could I do to earn it, Aileana? Nothing. - Sorcha
Elizabeth May
#45. And where was that day? Past and dead. Whose humiliating memories were these? His and not his father's. What had he to think back on that he could call good? Very, very little. You had to forgive. First, to forgive yourself, and then, general forgiveness.
Saul Bellow
#46. Forgiveness was at the heart of everything. Because I could not ask, I could not be forgiven.
Ann Patchett
#47. This is bigger than you," said Mr. Baram. "You can bring down this whole system. Erase the data that enslaves so many. Jubilee. Freedom. Forgiveness. Is that not enough?
Alex London
#48. He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.
Thomas Watson
#49. And as she'd watched him stagger away Swan had realized that forgiveness crippled evil, drew the poison from it like lancing a boil.
Robert McCammon
#50. True forgiveness requires that we understand the negative actions of another.
Bell Hooks
#51. 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
#52. I may not give you the forgiveness you're asking, but i'm giving you forever to make me forgive you.
JCrov
#53. David did not pay for his forgiveness. He did pay for his unforgiveness.
Johnny Hunt
#55. Churchmen, eh? Love one minute, forgiveness the next, and then it's eternity on fire.
Mark Lawrence
#56. The unchangeableness of the Lord's love, and the riches of his mercy, are likewise more illustrated by the multiplied pardons He bestows upon his people - than if they needed no forgiveness at all.
John Newton
#58. Time is a membrane, a connective tissue, and it can be bruised. Time can't heal all wounds:Time is all wounds. Only love and forgiveness heal all wounds
Gregory David Roberts
#59. I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.
Alan Cohen
#60. Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
Desmond Tutu
#62. The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin. The next best vegetable is the jalapeno pepper. It has the virtue of turning salads into practical jokes.
P. J. O'Rourke
#64. I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past ... but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.
Martha Beck
#65. We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basically about forgiveness, and not about someone else forgiving you, but you forgiving yourself. I think we all want a lot of that.
Kelli O'Hara
#66. Both heaven and hell are populated entirely and only by forgiven sinners. Hell is just a courtesy for those who insist they want no part of forgiveness.
Robert Farrar Capon
#67. I always win in every fight; my secret weapons are my kindness and forgiveness.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Maybe it's the alcohol in my system muddying it up, but I feel bad for her. It's overwhelming pity; that downgrades hate to dislike, with disclaimers that ward off lifting the veil to allow forgiveness in. Damn her;
Kim Holden
#69. Hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.
John Updike
#70. Only when we see both the freeness and the cost of forgiveness will we get relief from the guilt as well as liberation from the power of sin in our lives.
Timothy Keller
#71. I won't ask for forgiveness, but I am so very sorry," he said, with the simple brevity she was learning to expect. She pressed her lips into his soft, dark hair. "I know." He
Renee Ahdieh
#72. Don't ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you'll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you.
Yasmin Mogahed
#73. I want to be part of a church that, as the full-orbed body of Christ, reflects the radiant beauty and attractiveness of God's love, grace, forgiveness, salvation, and hope, for this life and for an eternity of fellowship together with one another as well as with him!
Mark Mittelberg
#74. Under the law of the kingdom, for example, no one may hope for forgiveness who has not first forgiven. Mt 6:12,14,15
Anonymous
#75. Forgiveness is more than words ... it is a state of being, and if forgiveness is to be anything more than a superficial offering, then, psychological, emotional, and spiritual ground must be cleared in order that the act of forgiveness may be properly rooted, and, therefore, lasting.
Bill Whitehouse
#76. Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.
Lewis B. Smedes
#77. Thank God, He is in the business of not only forgiveness but restoration.
MaryLu Tyndall
#78. Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness.
Gary Rohrmayer
#79. From childhood on, I found many of my angels in favorite authors, writers who created books that enabled me to understand life with greater complexity. These works opened my heart to compassion, forgiveness, and understanding.
Bell Hooks
#80. Time heals the wounds of the past,
Apology, forgiveness, and acceptance
does lighten the scars.
Rhoendyl RCruz
#81. Own your failure openly, publicly, with genuine regret but absolutely no shame, and you'll reap a harvest of forgiveness, trust, respect, and connection-the things you thought you'd get by succeeding. Ironic, isn't it?
Martha Beck
#82. Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
Corrie Ten Boom
#84. I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.
Dick Gephardt
#85. Nothing that happened before this moment has any power over you whatsoever, except to the extent to which you carry it into this moment. Dwell in the present with full forgiveness of yourself and others, and your life will be lifted to divine right order ... perfection, prosperity and peace.
Marianne Williamson
#86. A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the injustice, but he accepts slander as truth; he does not attempt to persuade men that he is calumniated, but he begs forgiveness.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#87. To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron)
I don't ask for your forgiveness. I don't deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I'm not the fool I was once. (Styxx)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#88. In our family, forgiveness is something you pray for, something you yearn to receive - but so seldom do you give it to others.
Uvi Poznansky
#89. It's kind of hard to articulate, but, like, this notion of mercy, forgiveness, was very appealing for me. It was very profound. And it had a deep impact, and I think it still does.
Jim Gaffigan
#90. Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
Brennan Manning
#91. I believe that love and forgiveness engages an incomprehensible healing force and sometimes true healing occurs, but always an emotional and spiritual healing happens.
Angeli Maun Akey
#92. Forgiveness is not a sign of weakness; it is an attribute of bravery.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Happiness is a state of awareness, which comes from tranquility, service, love, grace, and forgiveness.
Debasish Mridha
#94. you have to embrace forgiveness if you love someone. Everyone's going to mess up. Everyone's going to need grace. It works both ways.
Christy Barritt
#95. Receiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which effects forgiveness and heals the sin-sick soul.
Marion G. Romney
#96. Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Desmond Tutu
#97. God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.
Philip Yancey
#98. Forgiveness does not mean I approve of or condone what transpired.
Sharon E. Rainey
#99. Forgiveness is essential as the ultimate detox
Doreen Virtue
#100. I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.
Ibn Warraq
