Forgiveness Quotes - Page 31

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

Lewis B. Smedes

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

Corrie ten Boom

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

Socrates

See, forgiveness doesn't happen all at once. It's not an event -- it's a process. Forgiveness happens while you're asleep, while you're dreaming, while you're inline at the coffee shop, while you're showering, eating, farting, jerking off. It happens in the back of your mind, and then one day you realize that you don't hate the person anymore, that your anger has gone away somewhere. And you understand. You've forgiven them. You don't know how or why. It sneaked up on you. It happened in the small spaces between thoughts and in the seconds between ideas and blinks. That's where forgiveness happens. Because anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth. At least, that's what I hope.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare...

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.

Cherie Carter-Scott

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,Men were deceivers ever,-One foot in sea and one on shore,To one thing constant never.

William Shakespeare

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.

Khaled Hosseini

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Keep in mind, hurting people often hurt other people as a result of their own pain. If somebody is rude and inconsiderate, you can almost be certain that they have some unresolved issues inside. They have some major problems, anger, resentment, or some heartache they are trying to cope with or overcome. The last thing they need is for you to make matters worse by responding angrily.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat......Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.........Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive. But should they finally confess and repent, you will discover a miracle in your own heart that allows you to reach out and begin to build between you a bridge of reconciliation.........Forgiveness does not excuse anything.........You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness......

William Paul Young

These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind one's own business.Not to want to manage other people's affairs.To avoid curiosity.To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.To pass over the mistakes of others.To accept insults and injuries.To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.To be kind and gentle even under provocation.Never to stand on one's dignity.To choose always the hardest.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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

Confucius

Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.

The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either -- or both -- when needed?

Gordon B. Hinckley

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.

Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

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

Abraham Lincoln

...if anything matters then everything matters. Because you are important, everything you do is important. Every time you forgive, the universe changes; every time you reach out and touch a heart or a life, the world changes; with every kindness and service, seen or unseen, my purposes are accomplished and nothing will be the same again.

William Paul Young

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

William Paul Young

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

William Paul Young

I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.

Susane Colasanti

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?

Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Corrie ten Boom

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

Forgiving someone else doesn't give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on.

Charles F. Glassman

Love is divine.Forgiveness is divine. Forgive for the love for yourself and others. Forgiveness is a spiritual healing for the person who forgives.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is gracious to overlook an offence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Forgiveness is strength.The strength to move ahead without any resentment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God is merciful to all who repent and turn to Him.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We need to extend forgiveness to all who have hurt us. Forgive others who have trespass you just as your Heavenly Father forgives you. God's grace is the power to forgiveness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The love of God knows no end.Lord may your boundless and unfailing love surround us.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The greatest privileges:You are saved.You are a child of Most High God.You are co-heirs with Christ.You share in Christ suffering, life adversities.You share in Christ glory, strength of will and survival of life's difficulties.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Welcome the righteous,avoid the wicked,and yet open both arms to the repentant.Whoever receives them receives God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Breathe a word of prayer, not anger.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.

In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.

Patience Johnson

No one should be surprised at the difficulty of faith, if there is some part of his life where he is consciously resisting or disobeying the commandment of Jesus. Is there some part of your life which you are refusing to surrender at his behest, some sinful passion, maybe, or some animosity, some hope, perhaps your ambition or your reason? ... How can you hope to enter into communion with him when at some point in your life you are running away from him?

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God of great miracles.God of great mercies.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I feel so blessed to be alive and so blessed to have to have a father that loves me no matter how much wrong I do in this world.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

How gracious to forgive the people who hurt you

Lailah Gifty Akita

We must repent while the chance exists, to confess our sins.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Only the Saviour saves souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

With every new day come the Lord’s great love, grace and mercies.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When I pass-away (as each of us must) release a balloon into the sky with ashes attached, to celebrate my graduation... My graduation from this life to the next.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Giving Thanks unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have, no matter how little, into more than enough. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. Gratitude can change a modest meal into a feast, a humble house into a loving home, a stranger into a caring friend.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

When you smile and no one else is around, you definitely mean it.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Depression is the feeling that everythingis a waste of time.Joy is KNOWING that nothing in this Life is a waste.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

We can, each of us, be likened to houses made entirely of colorfully stained-glass. They sparkle and shine when the sun is on them, however when the darkness sets in, their greatest beauty is revealed only by a Light from within.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

Thank You is a great thing to share... If a situation brings Gratitude to mind, then a heart felt Thank You is a great way to express it.

Raymond D. Longoria Jr.

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