Forgiving Quotes

The true liberation, the true path to freedom, lay in the ability to forgive.

Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself

Forgiving is not an easy thing to do.

To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present

Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.

I’m as forgiving as the wall you hit at two hundred kilometers an hour.

Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

My deepest belief is that to live as if we're dying can set us free. Dying people teach you to pay attention and to forgive and not to sweat the small things.

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.

You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, the pond sucking out the throb.

We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting.

Anything that starts as a practice often turns into the habit and so can be the case with a person's nature of forgiving himself on his mistakes a few number of times.

FORGIVING is FOR GIVING to others and if it is meant FOR GETTING to ourselves then should it not be termed as FORGETTING ourselves.

I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.

This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

I'ma forgive all the people that took my kindness as weakness. I'ma forgive anyone who never hit me back. I'ma forgive all ya'll. I won't forget.

I believe that children are, by nature, very forgiving. I don't think children expect their parents to be perfect. I think they demand that their parents be real.

Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.

We are required to forgive everyone.

A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.

Ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.

It's okay to forgive yourself immediately and for good.

Aline: "He's cute, for a Downworlder" Sebastian: "You'll have to forgive her; she has the face of an angel and the manners of a Moloch demon

But people didn't forgive you for doing what felt right-that was the last thing they forgave you for.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

Wit, who never once Forgave a brother, shall forgive a dunce.

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.

He makes those just who are unjust, forgives those who deserve to be punished, and favors those who deserve no favor.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.

Jenn: Do you love him? Ani: Yeah, I do. Jenn: Then you can forgive him. It's not worth it to let love slip through your hands.

I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not been a result we can all agree on.

Always be accountable. Forgive and let go.

Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands.

We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

The man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

As the victim, you offer the gift of your forgiving to the perpetrator who may or may not appropriate the gift but it has been offered and thereby it liberates the victim.

To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood.

If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.