Top 100 Quotes On Forgiveness And Love
#1. Forgiveness is "selective remembering" - a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go. But the ego is relentless - it is "capable of suspiciousness at best and viciousness at worst.
Marianne Williamson
#2. The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.
Anne Lamott
#3. It takes strength to forgive and love unconditionally.
Michelle Madow
#4. Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.
Sharon Salzberg
#5. Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.
Wm. Paul Young
#6. Simply having the courage to say senseless things made me euphoric. I was free, with no need to seek or to give explanations for what I was doing. This freedom lifted me to the heavens - where greater love, one that forgives everything and never allows you to feel abandoned, once again enveloped me.
Paulo Coelho
#7. If you have enemies, forgive them. Forgiveness is always the best revenge and unforgettable punishment.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Where there is life, there is hope, and where there is love, there is
forgiveness.
Kristin Hannah
#10. For love doesn't stand alone, nor can it, but trails like a blazing comet, bringing with it other shining goods - forgiveness, kindness, tolerance, fairness, companionability and friendship, all bound to the love which is at the heart of Jesus's message.
Ian McEwan
#11. But to begin again? No, Virginia. There can be no beginning again. Love and forgiveness are not the same thing.
Priya Parmar
#12. It is in love, compassion, and forgiveness that we truly serve.
Donald Clinebell
#13. Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#14. Inevitable is not the same as immediate, Sieh
and love does not mandate forgiveness.
N.K. Jemisin
#15. Every thought leads me back to crossroads of patience, forgiveness and love.
Shannon L. Alder
#16. Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.
Henrik Ibsen
#17. 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
#18. He knew exactly how to hit a woman, so that the marks hardly showed. He knew how to kiss her , too, so that her heart began to race and she'd start to think forgiveness with every breath. It's amazing the places that love will carry you. It's astounding to discover just how far you're willing to go.
Alice Hoffman
#19. Spreading the Gospel means that we are the first to proclaim and live the reconciliation, forgiveness, peace, unity, and love that the Holy Spirit gives us.
Pope Francis
#20. There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)
Stephen Levine
#21. Realize you have awesome people around you who want to love you. Let them. Show them you love them back. (Actions trump words.) Do the forgiveness thing. If necessary-and it almost always is- do the forgiveness thing on yourself.
Kari Luna
#22. To stop war, teach peace, love, cooperation, and most of all - forgiveness.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness.
Darren Johnson
#25. The church is not a theological classroom. It is a conversion, confession, repentance, reconciliation, forgiveness and sanctification center, where flawed people place their faith in Christ, gather to know and love him better, and learn to love others as he designed.
Paul David Tripp
#27. The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice-and so the pain-of the cross.
John Stott
#28. If you love someone, you will forgive him or her all the wrongs. You can make it right
and love again.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#29. To find true peace, forgive those who fill your mind with hatred and instead show them the path of love.
Debasish Mridha
#30. My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.
Billy Graham
#31. Exchange love for hate ... Thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.
Maya Angelou
#32. When you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.
Philippa Gregory
#33. To love those who love us and are good to us is easy. To love those who are indifferent to us is workable, but to love those who have harmed us, intentionally or not, is true growth and realization.
Patsie Smith
#34. I have never read, heard or seen hatred and guilt win a fight. When we walk in the light of forgiveness and love we meet true victory.
Ogwo David Emenike
#35. I define myself by helping others. This is what I do.
Those people who want me to abandon my husband are asking me to put myself first and to judge him. The poor man has been judged unfairly by others. Why would I abandon him in his greatest need?
Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
#36. To shame our sins He blushed in blood;
He closed His eyes to show us God;
Let all the world fall down and know
That none but God such love can show
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#37. True love is limitless, patience and forgiveness are not ...
Jarius Raphel
#38. My hope is that this movie will affect people on a very profound level and reach them with a message of faith, hope, love and forgiveness.
Mel Gibson
#39. How can you love those who have stolen from you, assaulted or abused you, or tried to blow you up and completely destroy you? How can you forgive those who have kidnapped, tortured and killed someone you love? Yet this is where reconciliation has to begin.
Andrew White
#40. Love is joy and happiness.
Love is purity in it's true form.
Love covers multiple of sins.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#41. War will not be able to bring peace - only love and forgiveness can do that.
Debasish Mridha
#42. What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?
Cassandra Clare
#43. Jesus lived a life of peace, love, kindness and forgiveness, during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, may we all do our best to follow his example.
Barack Obama
#45. Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship.
Steve Maraboli
#46. God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us.
Paulo Coelho
#47. I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every one, feeling desirous that all should have their sins forgiven, and love Jesus as I did.
Ellen G. White
#48. Forgiveness is a light and a gift for you. It makes you blissful, whatever you do.
Debasish Mridha
#49. To lose--get angry and fight back. To win--forgive with love.
Debasish Mridha
#50. love and forgiveness have to be the core of that faith,
C.A. Werwinski
#51. A true Christian does not see God's promise of forgiveness as a license to sin, a way to abuse His love and presume on His grace. Rather, he sees God's gracious forgiveness as the means to spiritual growth and sanctification. He continually thanks God for His great love and willingness to forgive.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#52. In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness
Bill Moyers
#53. All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.
Bell Hooks
#54. If any dust of imperfection cling to your heart, be not troubled, but consume it immediately in the fire of divine love, and, sorrowfully asking forgiveness, continue to live in peace.
Paul Of The Cross
#55. There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.
Eugene Kennedy
#56. I just thought I was empty and now I'm being filled ... and I just wanted to keep being filled.
Laura Hillenbrand
#57. Have a policy of pre-emptive forgiveness. Refuse to get offended by petty things. Make a decision early on to cut the other person some slack in everyday life. Then you can take comfort in knowing they'll do it for you, as well. Accepting each other, flaws and all, is what love is all about.
Gaelen Foley
#58. Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
Adam Hamilton
#59. Never waste time holding grudges for people who have wronged you.
Time waits for no one.
Apologise when you are wrong,
Express your love when you should,
Forgive the ones who wronged you,
And appreciate the one who makes efforts to see you smile.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#60. Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does get you somewhere. Just keep walking.
Shellie Palmer
#61. It seems as though we Christians have developed a nasty habit of leading people into a radical encounter with God's unconditional love, forgiveness, acceptance, and union only to spend the ensuing years teaching them how to become close to God to earn his approval.
Ted Dekker
#62. The creation of man is evidence for the love of God, the preservation of man is evidence for the patience of God, and Christ is evidence for the forgiveness of God. It is when we are wrapped up in our own little peeves that we begin to displace His benevolence with malevolence.
Criss Jami
#63. With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.
Tori Spelling
#64. Practice love, compassion and forgiveness. Anger is nothing but an anchor that keeps you from moving forward.
Abby Fabiaschi
#65. The depth of heartache and love, hurt and forgiveness we had experienced since the last time we were here. And my heart filled with gratitude for all of it, even the pain, because it had brought us here, to this very moment.
Mia Sheridan
#66. If you want to speak to someone you cannot touch, see, or hear, the voice of love will transmit with or without a phone. It crosses all borders and travels through time and walls.
Julieanne O'Connor
#67. Unconditional love and forgiveness are the sources of eternal happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!
Auliq Ice
#69. It hadn't escaped her notice that when she let him believe the worst of her, still he vowed to stand beside her and work toward forgiveness.
Elizabeth Camden
#70. Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.
Glenn Beck
#71. I am betrayed and played but right now im feeling nothing pain but to forgive, it's because I love God too much that I can't hate.
AKA
#72. No god will spare you forgiveness for loving me.
Liam Levi
#73. Don't harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#74. Forgiveness is divine. It purifies your heart and mind.
Debasish Mridha
#75. we all love people in our life. way of expressing it may change but the intensity never fluctuates. there are comparisons and fights in any relation because of the same reason of their existence.
Auliq Ice
#76. May spending time with You be my first priority, may listening and obeying mark my life, may extravagant childlike joy and amazement mark my demeanor, may an openness to share your grace quickly and easily flow from me, may I seek your forgiveness and excitedly accept it.
Katie Kiesler
#77. When you understand what love is you will understand that mercy and forgiveness feels better than any form of revenge.
Shannon L. Alder
#78. Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.
Stephen King
#79. To forgive' is divine they say, and 'to forget', attracts blessings, but to go a step further, and learn a lesson from a bad encounter/ experience is an act of wisdom;and promise oneself that you will never allow yourself to be exposed to such a thing or a person or even an idea again.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#80. All they had to do was let go, and they'd be free. But they held on.
Dyan Cannon
#81. Life is war, and marriage provides us with a close and intimate ally with whom we may wage this war. The battle requires bold love, forgiveness, confrontation, and repentance.
Dan B. Allender
#82. If you punish them, they are your slaves and if you forgive them they are your brothers.
Auliq Ice
#84. Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love and compassion.
Dalai Lama
#85. That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you'll be free.
Louise Hay
#86. Better to be blinded by love than hate; one forgives and the other refuses.
T.F. Hodge
#87. 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
#88. Forgiveness is greater than condemnation, and love stronger than hate. What is there left for us to contemplate?
-Reed Abbitt Moore-
Reed Abbitt Moore
#89. God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families ... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids.
Kirk Cameron
#90. Forgive and forget.If there's anything that I've learnt this far, it's to forgive people - Balqis
Diyar Harraz
#91. I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could give me - your admiration, your acceptance, your love, your forgiveness. I forgot to love you for yourself.
Jennifer Ashley
#92. Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#93. No matter how dark life can be, it's how we react to it that matters. Love & forgiveness instead of hate and fear, create in us a garden of healing.
Kathy Goodhew
#94. I remember every good thing about you. Every sweet and perfect thing. And nothing else." He touched her chin, tipped it up to look into her wet brown eyes. Even smudged, they were gorgeous. The dawning light in them filled his heart, and healed it. "Nothing else.
V.S. Carnes
#95. Anger keeps us down and hinders us from moving forward. Its power is strengthened by our longing for justice.
E'yen A. Gardner
#96. Tapping is a powerful tool that can truly heal, allowing forgiveness, love, and acceptance into your life, particularly when used along with affirmations.
Louise Hay
#97. You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
Judy Blume
#98. I will not ask you for forgiveness. What I have done is unforgivable. I was so lost in hatred and revenge. I never dreamed that I could love you so much. You stole what was left of my heart. And now I've lost you forever.
Elizabeth Rudnick
#99. This earthly realm is, I believe, where we are meant to learn the lessons of unconditional love, compassion, forgiveness, and acceptance.
Eben Alexander
#100. Choices and consequences. Choices and consequences.
Tan Redding
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