Forgiveness Quotes

Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

When Allah grants us the sense to ask Him for forgiveness, then He has granted us a huge favor. It's a sign that He wants to forgive us.

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

Ask God for forgiveness, and leave your regrets in the past!

Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love

True forgiveness and love arise naturally, effortlessly, from the silence of the heart broken all the way open.