Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.

Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.

This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.

Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.

All forgiveness is self forgiveness.

I discovered that forgiveness is a path to freedom.

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

Temper justice with mercy.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

We cannot with all our heart forgive someone who does us wrong unless we possess real knowledge. For this knowledge shows us that we deserve all we experience.

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

No one is as good and merciful as the Lord. But even He does not forgive the unrepentant.

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.

Stories end in reverie, tragedy, or forgiveness.

You don't think we have a copyright to forgiveness, it is done by people everywhere.

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.

I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me.