Quotes About Forgiving The Past

#1. Forgiveness doesn't make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It's turning back toward being what we really are. - Author: Edward Fahey

#2. There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself. - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#3. Forgiving the past means remembering the love there, and releasing all the rest as the illusion that it really was. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#4. It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present - Author: Andy Andrews

#5. I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future. - Author: Vanessa L. Williams

#6. The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time. - Author: Caroline Myss

#7. Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different. - Author: Edward M. Hallowell

#8. Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Do not be deceived that you are weak because you have forgiven; instead be rest assured that you are now showing great strength - after all, forgiving is one of the most difficult things to do. - Author: Stephen Richards

#10. 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. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#11. My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified. - Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#12. To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. 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. - Author: Martha Beck

#14. 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. - Author: Louise Hay

#15. The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player. - Author: Stephen Richards

#16. But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back. - Author: Elizabeth Smart

#17. You cannot even touch my soul.
So I have emerged stronger,
Kinder, perceptive, forgiving
To embrace you with all the humility. - Author: Balroop Singh

#18. The past is stronger than my will to forgive forgive you, or myself, I don't know. - Author: Shawn Colvin

#19. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone. - Author: Stephen Richards

#20. First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him. - Author: David Jeremiah

#21. Second only to the sea, the Miami sky has been the greatest comfort in my life past 50. On a good day, when the wind blows from the south, the light here is diffuse and forgiving. - Author: Iggy Pop

#22. South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting. - Author: Nelson Mandela

#23. 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. - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#24. 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. - Author: Marlo Morgan

#25. Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past. - Author: Jack Kornfield

#26. Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage. - Author: Tim Fargo

#27. Forgive and call back the energy wasted on past events. - Author: Caroline Myss

#28. People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride. - Author: Richard Simmons

#29. One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past. - Author: T.D. Jakes

#30. Harping should be limited to musical instruments. - Charmainism - Author: Charmaine Smith Ladd

#31. Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past, when you make the past your jailer, you destroy your future. It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, let the burden go, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility. - Author: John O'Donohue

#32. We want to remember the lessons of our past because they have a lot to teach us. That way, we can avoid the mistakes and fools of our past. Forgiving is not the same as condoning or approving. - Author: Jessica N. Watkins

#33. 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. - Author: Lewis B. Smedes

#34. Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future. - Author: Jodi Picoult

#35. 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. - Author: Stephen Richards

#36. To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten. - Author: Marianne Williamson