Forgiveness Quotes

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

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

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.