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Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness is, first of ali, a gift I give myself.
~ Bo Sanchez
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
~ John Tillotson
Forgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos.
~ Barbara Johnson
Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
The cut worm forgives the plow.
~ William Blake
Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.
~ Unknown
Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
~ Anne Lamott
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.
~ Rae Foley
I can always forgive where I understand.
~ Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.
~ Bruce Springsteen
Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.
~ Seth Godin
We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls.
~ Ed Dobson
He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.
~ Thomas Watson
Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.
~ George Santayana
Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals
~ Thomas S. Monson
Gandhi was right: if we all live by 'an eye for an eye' the whole world will be blind. The only way out is forgiveness.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If little faults proceeding on distemper Shall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested, Appear before us?
~ William Shakespeare
When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness.
~ Amy Poehler
Forgive thyself little, and others much.
~ Leighton Meester
There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.
~ George MacDonald
Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.
~ Abraham Lincoln