Forgiving Quotes

Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.

To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past.

When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.

Life is forgiving and amazing. Embrace it. Cultivate it. Make it yours!

sometimes forgiving someone it's not because he's really sorry and deserved it, but because we were worthy of tranquility.

Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness.

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

Forgiveness is a revolving door positioned in your path.  You must step through it to move on, but it takes both timing and choice to escape walking circles inside.

Let go of all hate, love one another deeply.

It is gracious to overlook and offence.

Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.

Be happy by forgiving or forgetting or doing both, but we can gain no happiness by holding grudges.

The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements.

I forgive him and like water draining from the sand after a wave, the power he held over me disappears. A slow smile rises on my face.

Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.

Mercy is mercy.

Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.

Life is for learning. Life is for loving. Life is for living and life is for forgiving.

The purpose of life is to be happy by loving, giving, and forgiving.

Nothing changes until people decide to do the things they must, in order to bring about peace.

If your heart is strong enough to hold grudges, then it is very capable of forgiving others. It takes more strength to hold onto something than to let it go.

We always expect God and others to forgive us, but many of us don't have it in their hearts to forgive others. But don't forget that an unforgiving heart knows nothing about happiness.

Let us make a choice and a promise to be kind, courteous, loving, and forgiving.

... Of his sins [Heavenly Father] does not want [man] to think [on them] too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better [Heavenly Father] is pleased.

By forgiving we become free.

Baba always used to say that as we age, things change, we become more rigid, and then eventually, most of us, become forgiving again. He called it the cycle of life.

Live like a tree, giving, forgiving, and free.

You cannot even touch my soul. So I have emerged stronger, Kinder, perceptive, forgiving To embrace you with all the humility.