Forgiveness Quotes

2479 Forgiveness quotes by 1209 unique authors

Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive… — Lee Strobel
Few things accelerate the peace process as much as humbly admitting our own wrongdoing and asking forgiveness. — Lee Strobel
Many people are reluctant to show mercy because they don't understand the difference between trust and forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Trust… — Rick Warren
Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, which can only apply to felons, but rather to finding your brother again...I seek forgiveness… — Marie Antoinette
Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their… — Paul Cezanne
Each of us has a genuine capacity for love, forgiveness, wisdom and compassion. Meditation awakens these qualities so that we can discover for ourselves the… — Sharon Salzberg
I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only… — Melody Beattie
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. — Chaim Herzog
There is no forgiveness in nature. — Ugo Betti
True forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves. — Brandon Bays
There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health. — Herbert Benson
We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes… — Lewis B. Smedes
Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat… — Lewis B. Smedes
...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving. — Lewis B. Smedes
If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the… — Lewis B. Smedes
With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really… — Lewis B. Smedes
We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all. — Lewis B. Smedes
The problem with revenge is that it never gets what it wants; it never evens the score. Fairness never comes. The chain reaction set off… — Lewis B. Smedes
Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness. — Lewis B. Smedes
I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of… — Lewis B. Smedes
God is the original, master forgiver. Each time we grope our reluctant way through the minor miracle of forgiving, we are imitating his style. I… — Lewis B. Smedes
A wise judge may let mercy temper justice but may not let mercy undo it. — Lewis B. Smedes
Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were the ones people… — Lewis B. Smedes
I am certain that people never forgive because they believe they have an obligation to do it or because someone told them to do it.… — Lewis B. Smedes

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