Sayings About Forgiving Someone

#1. Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.

Donna Goddard

#2. Imogenia's temper flared. "I was to become queen when you died, Father! He will pay," she snarled. "Honey," the king objected, "I'm not going to say I understand how you feel, but not forgiving someone hurts you, not the one you hate.

L.R.W. Lee

#3. Staying mad is easy. Forgiving someone takes guts.

Jillian Dodd

#4. Sometimes, when someone keeps forgiving someone else, it becomes too much.

Brodi Ashton

#5. Forgiving someone who has wronged you is actually a selfish act rather than a selfless one.

Robin S. Sharma

#6. Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on.

Charles F. Glassman

#7. Forgiving someone never alters what they did. That never changes."

(Bitter Roots)

Karin Kaufman

#8. Forgiving someone only absolves you from holding them accountable. When that person has not truly met that accountability, it is a weakness on your end, Miss Rachael. To forgive when they are unrepentant only relieves you of that responsibility.

Deidre Huesmann

#9. Forgiveness doesn't work that way. You may want to forgive, but you can't do it yet. Forgiving someone can take weeks, months, years. Sometimes it takes a lifetime.

Anne Bishop

#10. Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.

Mercedes Lackey

#11. Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.

Nouman Ali Khan

#12. Not forgiving someone hurts you worse than it hurts him ... even if he doesn't deserve to be forgiven ... Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one who put it there.

Mercedes Lackey

#13. Forgiving someone doesn't mean pretending nothing happened. Rather, it means releasing the burden of anger and obsession so you can move on with your life.

Charles F. Glassman

#14. Forgiving someone may cost you your pride, but not forgiving them will cost you your freedom.

Charles F. Glassman

#15. Forgiving someone who hurt you is hard as hell to actually do, but in the end, it brings you the kind of relief you need to move on. Like when you close a book, so you can open up a new one.

Abi Ketner

#16. Eddis stared at him for a long time, knowing that forgiving someone because you have to is not forgiving him at all.

Megan Whalen Turner

#17. Preventing your heart from forgiving someone you love is actually a hell of a lot harder than simply forgiving them.

Colleen Hoover

#18. I've learned ... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you ... More

Andy Rooney

#19. That's what forgiving was: seeing someone for what they were, flaws and all, not what you wanted them to be, not what they should have been.

B.G. Harlen

#20. How can you not forgive someone who made you a better person?

Piolo Pascual

#21. It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

Caroline Llewellyn

#22. But forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself.

Jodi Picoult

#23. It's not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.

Paulo Coelho

#24. Forgiving doesn't mean forgetting, nor does it mean approving of, what someone did. It just means that you're letting go of the anger toward that person.

Frank Sonnenberg

#25. It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.

Ivan Doig

#26. There comes a day when, for someone who has persecuted us, we feel only indifference, a weariness at his stupidity. Then we forgive him.

Cesare Pavese

#27. To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

Robert Breault

#28. Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Shirley Hazzard

#29. There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is ... me.

C.S. Lewis

#30. Don't drag anchors of unforgiveness into your relationships. Forgive who you need to forgive. Reach out to someone who may be able to help you work this through. Don't drag around those things that "encumber" you.

Lee Ezell

#31. It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.

Timothy Keller

#32. But sometimes it's easier to love someone who has flaws you can forgive in return for their forgiving yours.

Mark Lawrence

#33. 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

#34. 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.

Stephen Richards

#35. You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything ... We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.

Lewis B. Smedes

#36. If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

Gary Zukav

#37. If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?

Adam McKay

#38. Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

Desmond Tutu

#39. All we have to do is to receive what we are given ... We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

Vernon Howard

#40. When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right before your eyes, but you can't see it. And you'd never ask someone to drown with a smile on his face.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#41. There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.

Jerry Hall

#42. If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?

Anne Graham Lotz

#43. We cannot repent for someone else. But we can forgive someone else, refusing to hold hostage those whom the Lord seeks to set free!

Neal A. Maxwell

#44. The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Gabrielle Bernstein

#45. To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.

Marshall Sylver

#46. Sometime, it's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.

Mark Lawrence

#47. Forgiveness is not a gift you give someone else, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself.

Donald L. Hicks

#48. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

Stephen Richards

#49. Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you'd let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I've been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back.

Jodi Picoult

#50. As I get older I've come to realize that the best way to "get even" with someone is to forgive - and then forget.

Mark Hart

#51. Pause and remember - It is never too late to begin again, to forgive someone, to have a dream, to meet someone or to love yourself. It is never too late!

Jennifer Young

#52. I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it. Forgiveness has to come from inside as a desire of the heart. Wanting to is the steam that pushes the forgiving engine.

Lewis B. Smedes

#53. 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.

Jodi Picoult

#54. I forgive everyone. There's no reason to hold anything against someone. Revenge is over with.

Jose Aldo

#55. Forty years ago, we were on the tail of the Front Page era. There was a different point of view. Reporters and editors were more forgiving of public people. They didn't think they had to stick someone in jail to make a career.

Mike Royko

#56. Enduring and forgiving are two different things. You must not forgive the cruelty of this world. It's our duty as human beings to be angry at injustice. But we must also endure it. Because someone must sever this chain of hatred.

Hiromu Arakawa

#57. Psychopaths play on the fact that most of us are trusting and forgiving people. The warning signs are always there; it's just difficult to see them because once we trust someone, the friendship becomes a blinder. - The Psychopath Next Door.

Mercy Cortez

#58. If someone lies to you, be quick to forgive & they'll be more apt
to tell you the truth.

Marshall Sylver