Forgiveness Quotes

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.

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

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

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.

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

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