Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river.

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.

You're only human. Let's break free of this gravity of judgment And fly high on the wings of forgiveness.

I don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

Once you experience forgiveness, your outer world changes.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.

Who understands much forgives much. To understand everything makes us very forgiving.

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin.

Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

Inner Forgiveness is therapeutic. If you do not Forgive you cannot be Internally Healed. Forgiving heals the Soul.

Forgiveness works two ways, in most instances. People have to forgive themselves too. The powerful have to forgive themselves for their behavior. That should be a sacred process.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Without white South Africa realizing what it had done - and on the basis of that realization having the courage to ask for forgiveness - there can really be no significant movement.

You dont have to hold on to the pain, to hold on to the memory.