Top 65 Sometimes Forgiveness Quotes
#1. Sometimes forgiveness is a tough thing to muster up. And forgetting? Well, you have to find the forgiveness first. Hopefully the forgetting will come...with time.
Mike West
#2. Free yourself from the poisonous and laborious burden of holding a grudge. When you hold a grudge, you want someone else's sorrow to reflect your level of hurt, but the two rarely meet. Let go ... Sometimes, forgiveness is simply a reflection of loving yourself enough to move on.
Steve Maraboli
#3. Forgiveness: It's not because they deserve it; it's because you do. Sometimes forgiveness is about loving yourself enough to move on.
Steve Maraboli
#4. Sometimes forgiveness is the
hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.
Maya Banks
#6. Forgiveness can get you places, I guess. But sometimes you need to light a fire.
Danielle Paige
#7. Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.
Joss Whedon
#8. Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.
Frances Mayes
#9. You can't hold on, Zoe. Not to hate. Not even to love. You kill things that way. There's only one freedom. Forgiveness. And sometimes the hardest thing to do is to forgive yourself.
Pamela Todd
#10. We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance.
Taite Adams
#11. Sometimes redemption lands in your life like a bird and looks you straight in the eye, even when you believe you don't deserve forgiveness.
Adriana Trigiani
#12. I know he's a good person. And he said he was sorry. And I love him. And when you love a person, you have to forgive him sometimes.
Gabrielle Zevin
#13. Forgiveness is not reconciliation. Those are two different things. Sometimes they go together, but not always. Forgiveness is an issue between you and the Lord. Reconciliation is an issue between you and the other person.
Michelle Borquez
#14. Sometimes it's too heavy to give a second chance.
Manasa Rao
#15. We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.
Alison Croggon
#16. Sometimes we wait too long for the forgiveness of our fathers.
Harley King
#17. 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
#18. Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#19. Sometimes, an apology sets free a part of you that you didn't even realize was caged ... and forgiveness destroys the cage.
Sanjo Jendayi
#20. They're weak and strong and they make mistakes, like anyone, like he has. And love and care have all kinds of different faces, and within them, there's room for understanding, and for forgiveness, and for more. More and more and more. Sometimes
Patrick Ness
#21. Sometimes people need to know they could be forgiven to have the strength to change.
J. Leigh Bralick
#22. Sometimes ... the first step to forgiveness is realizing that the other person ... is batshit crazy.
Michelle Bartlett
#23. Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.
Shannon L. Alder
#24. When we take too long to forgive the people we love, we can sometimes be too damn late for it to matter.
Monika Basile
#25. Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.
Stephen Richards
#26. Sometimes you have to fight for the past and sometimes you have to let go.
Shannon Mullen
#27. Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#28. I believe that love and forgiveness engages an incomprehensible healing force and sometimes true healing occurs, but always an emotional and spiritual healing happens.
Angeli Maun Akey
#29. Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.
Rachel Gibson
#30. Sometimes the smallest things are so damn unforgivable. Maybe because they aren't small - they only seem that way to someone else. You never know what someone holds scared until it's too late.
James Anderson
#31. Sometimes we want to keep the battle going...until at last we we cut ourselves free. I don't forgive you to give to you, I forgive you to give to me.
Kate McGahan
#32. Sometimes people aren't hating on you. Because they feel a certain way about themselves, they just don't know how to be happy for you.
Yvonne Pierre
#33. I wonder sometimes why we don't have more words to express forgiveness. The words we use are so trite, so limited. How do you describe that first melting of a friend's face after a vicious fight, the moment when you suddenly know that eventually, you will survive this.
Edmond Manning
#34. I think sometimes when we grew up with a parent who is deeply flawed ... we learn, subconsciously at least, to expect the worst from everyone else as well ... Fortunately, it doesn't have to be that way forever. We can learn to see with new eyes if we try.
Mindy Starns Clark
#35. Every relationship has a spiritual purpose that helps us grow and become stronger. Sometimes, our most challenging relationships bring the greatest personal blessings. From them we learn about forgiveness, patience, and other virtues.
Doreen Virtue
#36. Sometimes that is what forgiveness is anyway, a deep sigh
Nickolas Butler
#37. Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
R. K. Milholland
#38. The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved. I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.
Tori Amos
#39. cause we all make mistakes sometimes, and we've all stepped across that line, but nothing's sweeter than the day we find forgiveness
TobyMac
#40. Sometimes a person can say I'm sorry a thousand times and that glue will never dry.
Stephanie Kallos
#41. 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
#42. Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#44. Remembering is not enough, if it simply hardens hate. Sometimes the hating has to stop.
Eric Lomax
#45. There's a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you've terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#46. Out here, we let ourselves be imperfect. We let ourselves have the room to make mistakes - sometimes tragic mistakes - then we allow ourselves forgiveness. Within that forgiveness, we try to be better than what we were.
J.D. Brewer
#47. Sins that have been completely absolved on one occasion sometimes on other occasions cannot be completely forgotten or set aside. They may continue to have a ripple effect. But it is comforting to realize that they are no longer remembered by God, even if traces remain in human memory.
Thomas C. Oden
#49. just need to pray." "You don't believe in God." "Sometimes I do." "What are you praying for?" Nothing can be done. Please don't make me hope. "For forgiveness." I
Anyta Sunday
#50. Sometimes the hardest thing is admitting you were wrong. It's hard to say you need to be forgiven.
Jane Casey
#51. But sometimes this hatred broke like a wave, unexplainably collapsing under its own weight, and before it would begin to well up again, she suddenly felt nothing but pure compassion for him, a kindness and forgiveness that almost broke her heart.
Sana Krasikov
#52. Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.
Dar Williams
#54. There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.
Ann Aguirre
#55. I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.
Katherine Applegate
#56. Great Drew, you're sitting here about to beg Daisy's forgiveness & you wont even give your own father the time of day. Mother Teresa once said, "You only love Christ as much as the person you love the least." Sometimes I can't stand that woman.
Lisa Samson
#57. Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see. Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.
Lisa Wingate
#58. Sometimes we can focus so much on nothing that we make it a big something of nothing
Ricky Maye
#59. You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.
Lois Lowry
#60. Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this "off with the head" attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?
Whoopi Goldberg
#61. Sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.
Myrtle Reed
#62. I don't know if I'm ready,' Poppy protested. 'Why must I do it so soon? There's no time limit for forgiveness, is there?'
'Sometimes there is.
Lisa Kleypas
#63. People punish themselves - sometimes for years. But it's not always necessary. Forgiveness allows everybody to start again, not to be burdened with a whole lot of old business.
Alexander McCall Smith
#64. But we all hurt the people we love sometimes. We all let each other down sooner or later. Which is why contrition and forgiveness played a part in any relationship. Trying not to hurt each other, trying not to let each other down in the big things, that was as much as anyone could aim for.
Josh Lanyon
#65. I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.
Patrick Gale
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