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Quotes About Forgiveness

If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.
~ Gary Zukav
You have been forgiven, so act like it!
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Forgiveness is a gift to myself. I forgive, and I set myself free.
~ Louise Hay
We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.
~ Alice Munro
It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
~ Unknown
I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.
~ Catharine Marshall
If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.
~ Robert Breault
In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
~ Jack Kornfield
Reject hatred without hating.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment.
~ Rick Warren
We pardon to the extent that we love.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Forgiveness means that you do not carry the baggage of an experience.
~ Gary Zukav
Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.
~ Drake
Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.
~ Oren Arnold
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
~ Horace
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
~ Francis Bacon
Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.
~ Dallas Willard
Forgiveness does not replace justice.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
~ Lord Chesterfield
Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners
~ Robert Farrar Capon
Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself
~ T. D. Jakes
Don't let the sun go down on me.
~ Elton John
Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.
~ Kent Nerburn