Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.

We offer you the landscape of your birth -- Exquisite and despoiled. We all share blame. We cannot ask forgiveness of the earth For killing what we cannot even name.

Teach them about anger, the sin that comes with dawning. Teach them about flowers, and the beauty of forgiveness.

Forgiveness doesn't mean we have to pretend someone didn't hurt us.

Forgiveness is the path to healing.

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run.

There is no peace without forgiveness.

It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forgetting to remember, but remembering to forget.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

Golf is a game of integrity. And golf is a game of forgiveness. I think the high standards of golf remind people of how lucky they are, or how fortunate they are, to be able to play the game.

To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don't ask for your forgiveness. I don't deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I'm not the fool I was once. (Styxx)

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

We forgive but not forgotten

Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes.

The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

True forgiveness is a willingness to change your mind about your Self.

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.