Quotes About Forgiving Others

#1. Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.

Liane Holliday Willey

#2. Forgiving others is easier when I remember that I'm human and stupid, too.

Justina Chen

#3. It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

Patty Duke

#4. Lord, You have extended such grace to me. You have forgiven my wickedness and remembered my sins no more. (Heb. 8:12) Help me to demonstrate my gratitude by forgiving others!

Beth Moore

#5. There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance you've ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It's a lot of work, actually.

Marianne Williamson

#6. In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself.

Sharon Weil

#7. Our Father in heaven, Reveal who you are. Set the world right; Do what's best - As above, so below. Keep us alive with three square meals. Keep us forgiven with you and forgiving others. Keep us safe from ourselves and the Devil. You're in charge!

Eugene H. Peterson

#8. Some say it should come easy if it's real love but that's just not true. Love is never easy - love hurts sometimes. It causes insecurities and jealousies. Relationships take work - love takes work. And happiness requires forgiving others. I forgive you.

A.D. Justice

#9. The challenge of life is regretless decision making, relentless pursuit of vision with faith, forgiving others, enduring pain with a smile & achieving goals with an extra MILE

Sujit Lalwani

#10. Help us to forgive ourselves as we struggle in our process of forgiving others."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#11. As you pray for forgiveness, you will find yourself forgiving others. As you thank God for His kindness, you will think of others, by name, who need your kindness. Again, that experience will surprise you every day, and over time it will change you.

Henry B. Eyring

#12. You can never forgive yourself without forgiving others. Forgive others to find and create peace in your soul.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Love can heal the sickness of all malice by forgiving others of preconceived hatred and prejudice.

Colishia S. Benjamin

#14. 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

#15. Forgiveness before one's death, isn't just about asking and receiving it, it's also about forgiving others.

Neha Yazmin

#16. None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.

Dan Harmon

#17. Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

Stephen Covey

#18. Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.

Josee D'Amore

#19. God will forgive you if you forgive others. Forgiving those who cause offence or injury is often exceedingly difficult. And yet, forgiveness is one of the most beautiful and important teachings of Jesus Christ. It is central to the gospel because, without it, you can't go to heaven.

Patrick Madrid

#20. As we pass through the trials of life, let us keep an eternal perspective, let us not complain, let us become even more prayerful, let us serve others, and let us forgive one another. As we do this, 'all things [will] work together for good to [us] that love God.'

James B. Martino

#21. Forgiving yourself and others gives your spirit freedom

Latorria Freeman

#22. This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#23. Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#24. You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but not when it affects others.

Zicheng Hong

#25. We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can.

Ken Wilber

#26. We can enhance our life by forgiving our self and others.

Kishore Bansal

#27. If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#28. Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

Joan Bauer

#29. There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive.

Robin Quivers

#30. The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.

Marianne Williamson

#31. When filled with God's love, we can do and see and understand things that we could not otherwise do or see or understand. Filled with His love, we can endure pain, quell fear, forgive freely, avoid contention, renew strength, and bless and help others in ways surprising even to us.

John H. Groberg

#32. Some people are more forgiving when they understand a situation, while others become even more furious once they see the whole picture.

Jonathan Carroll

#33. A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.

Stephen Richards

#34. Complex thinkers attempt to extend to others the same self-forgiving bias that they offer themselves.

Ted Cadsby

#35. I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.

Arthur Ashe

#36. We must remember to teach our children that even if others fail to be kind and considerate, we ought to be slow to condemn and very quick to forgive. We need not be tolerant of sin, but we must become tolerant and forgiving of the sinner.

Theodore M. Burton

#37. If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.

Yehuda Berg

#38. It is we humans that need to forgive others and ourselves for all wrongs, no matter what they may be. Only by forgiveness can we move higher up in our ascension and see in truth, there was never really anything there that needed forgiving

Timothy Moran

#39. Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness.

Gary Rohrmayer

#40. Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

Louise Hay

#41. And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

Rick Warren

#42. Therefore, let us put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering; and let us prove our Christlikeness not only in our zeal for saving the lost but also in our relationships with others - forbearing and forgiving one another, even as the Lord forgave us. Let

Andrew Murray

#43. Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent ... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

Kevin Allen

#44. Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.

Raven-Symone

#45. Forgiving and being forgiven frees our souls and lightens our load.

Sara Dormon

#46. I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.

Lord Chesterfield

#47. It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.

Benjamin Hoadly

#48. When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.

Genevieve Gerard

#49. Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

Leo Buscaglia

#50. A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking

Helen Steiner Rice

#51. ...if a person remains in a state of unforgiveness the Spirit of the Lord will allow tormentors to enter him. That's what Christ told Peter when the disciple asked, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" (Matt. 18:21).

Benny Hinn

#52. Forgiving other people who have wronged us or hurt us or embarrassed us is not easy. In fact, sometimes it seems impossible. But that is what God did for us and what He asks us to do for others.

Korie Robertson

#53. I am now willing to forgive myself ... for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself.

Iyanla Vanzant

#54. Fear is the root cause of just about all physiological disorders. Know that when people hurt you or attack you, they are living in fear.

Sandra M. Michelle

#55. FORGIVING is FOR GIVING to others and if it is meant FOR GETTING to ourselves then should it not be termed as FORGETTING ourselves.

Anuj

#56. Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#57. The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

Timothy Keller

#58. You are completely at choice who you will be today in your interactions with others. Compassionate, kind, giving and forgiving will create one set of probabilities; angry, judgmental, critical and defensive will create another one altogether.

Marianne Williamson

#59. Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

Vaclav Havel

#60. Forgive thyself little, and others much.

Leighton Meester

#61. I had to learn to forgive myself, not to judge, but to learn from the past. They showed me how vital it is to accept, be truthful, and love myself. So I could do the same with others.

Marlo Morgan

#62. You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.

Stephen Richards

#63. First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

Elizabeth Lesser

#64. As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

Ralph Venning

#65. Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

Mignon McLaughlin

#66. Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

Tim Fargo

#67. God searches for us, no matter what dark place we're in or what door we're behind. He hears our impossible, audacious prayers for ourselves and others. And He delights in forgiving us and then answering those prayers by letting us return home to Him.

Bob Goff

#68. By not forgiving yourself you are limiting your ability to give to others.

Danielle Joworski

#69. Harping should be limited to musical instruments. - Charmainism

Charmaine Smith Ladd

#70. Can you forgive her? Can you do that?
There was no response.
Because if you can start to forgive, then it will become easier.
And?
And then you will be able to forgive yourself - and ask others to forgive you.

Alexander McCall Smith

#71. It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.

Christian D. Larson

#72. Don't forgive and never forget; Do unto others before they do unto you; and third and most importantly, keep your eye on your friends, because your enemies will take care of themselves!

JR

#73. We can all learn to conquer hatred through love -drawing on the power released through the practice of meditation to throw all our weight, all our energy, and all our will on the side of what is patient, forgiving, and selfless in ourselves and others.

Eknath Easwaran

#74. Forgiveness is kindness regardless.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#75. Forgive others so that you may be forgiven.

T.D. Jakes

#76. When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.

Edward M. Hallowell