Quotes About Forgiveness

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.

Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

Forgiveness doesn't make the situation OK, it makes you OK.

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.

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

When God forgave me, I figured I'd better do it too.

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.

Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.

Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

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

Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.

Rage and bitterness do not foster femininity. They harden the heart and make the body sick.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.

Those who say they will forgive but can't forget, simply bury the hatchet but leave the handle out for immediate use.

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