Quotes About Forgiveness

The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.

A lack of forgiveness is a waste of time and it's very enriching to forgive and move on but those are things that come with time.

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

There is no condition for forgiveness.

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.

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

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.

I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.

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

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us.

If someone has offended you, start sowing forgiveness. You may need some yourself someday.

Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.

All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Never repeat old grievances.

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Forgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because