Forgiveness Quotes

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

For myself I think that one wrong does not right the other, and forgiveness cannot be won with useless tears or alms to the Church.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

Forgiveness is the greatest weapon, because a saint so armed is unperturbable he can give up anger immediately

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.

Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.

My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in spite of my ugly deeds

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

You will learn a lot about yourself if you stretch in the direction of goodness, of bigness, of kindness, of forgiveness, of emotional bravery. Be a warrior for love.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.