Quotes About Understanding

Forgive what you can't excuse.

Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.

Forgiveness should be an act, but this is a state with him.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

Every adult was once a child free from prejudice.

Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

Forgiveness essentially means giving up your right to make other people pay for the wrongs they have committed against you.

Let us forget and forgive injuries.

Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn't my trip.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Forgiveness doesn't mean we have to pretend someone didn't hurt us.

Forgiveness is the path to healing.

There is no peace without forgiveness.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.