Top 50 Real Forgiveness Quotes
#1. If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.
Maya Angelou
#2. Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered.
Sharon Salzberg
#3. To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.
David Small
#4. I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don't even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he's worthy of even considering it, and I just don't see that happening.
P.C. Cast
#5. There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness
where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they
didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do.
Tyler Perry
#6. The physical power of real love is staggering, because real forgiveness is staggering ...
Ted Dekker
#7. When we forgive someone, we don't pretend that the harm didn't happen or cause us pain. We see it clearly for what it was, but we also come to see that fixating on the memory of harm generates anger and sadness.
Sharon Salzberg
#8. The only way to heal the pain which will not heal itself is to forgive the person who hurt you. Forgiveness heals the memory's vision ... You set a prisoner free, but you discover the real prisoner was yourself.
Lewis B. Smedes
#9. We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention.
Sharon Salzberg
#10. The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#11. 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
#12. Thus the authority of compassion is the possibility of man to forgive his brother, because forgiveness is only real for him who has discovered the
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#13. A huge part of real love is constant forgiveness.
Glenn Close
#14. There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
Martin Luther
#15. We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.
Rob Bell
#16. The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.
C.S. Lewis
#17. I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.
Susane Colasanti
#18. It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#19. Regret isn't real. It's something invented to punish ourselves
Robin Bielman
#20. Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church, or receiving a sacrament. It is being brought to our knees by the conviction of God the Holy Spirit.
R.C. Sproul
#21. Dear Maya,
Life is an illusion.
And as it turns out, so is death.
What is real?
What remains when we all fade away?
Two things: Love. Forgiveness.
Don't forget
Cathy Ostlere
#22. 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
#23. If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.
Shannon L. Alder
#24. 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
#25. Forgiveness is the real strength in us all. Once we give up the need to be right, we discover freedom. Forgiveness is freedom. Forgiveness comes from our highest self. Once we can open our hearts and forgive, we move to the next level of who truly are.
John Dowd Jr.
#26. We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive - and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation.
Sharon Salzberg
#27. One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#28. Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn't depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
Sharon Salzberg
#29. I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing ... forgiveness.
Louis Zamperini
#30. Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.
Sharon Salzberg
#31. Genuine connection to others shows up in the vivid colors of defiance and forgiveness, reverence and rebellion, fighting and fucking: the real stuff.
Matthew B. Crawford
#32. The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love.
Criss Jami
#33. Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
Nagarjuna
#34. If forgiveness does take place it will be but an echo of the forgiveness granted by the just and loving God-- the only forgiveness that ultimately matters, because, though we must forgive, in a very real sense no one can either forgive or retain sins 'but God alone.
Miroslav Volf
#35. 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
#38. Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord.
Ezra Taft Benson
#39. No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
Edmund Phelps
#40. What happens in our hearts is our field of freedom. As long as we carry old wounds and anger in our hearts, we continue to suffer. Forgiveness allows us to move on.
Sharon Salzberg
#41. The difficulty is that without a direct revelation from the Author of the law, it is impossible to know whether the possibility of forgiveness is real. Therefore
J. Budziszewski
#42. Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.
Desmond Tutu
#44. The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.
Eknath Easwaran
#45. Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice.
Sharon Salzberg
#47. Real courage is being kind again, after you've felt that your kindness was thrown in your face. To risk it once more, or even twice more takes a special strength.
Clare Bell
#48. You can't have real love without operating in forgiveness. Love keeps giving the other person another chance.
Joyce Meyer
#50. Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life
Dalai Lama
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