Quotes About Peace

Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb higher and faster, and be much happier in the process.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

Forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. Forgiveness indeed heals memories . . .

You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

Forgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.

Forgiveness is essential as the ultimate detox

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.

There is power in forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.

Forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness. To not retaliate is to absorb the cost.

Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.

Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Forgiveness ... is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

When true forgiveness happens it is one of the most astonishing and liberating of the human experience.

I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't.

Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Never repeat old grievances.