Quotes About Forgiveness

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.

We always assume that there's tomorrow to make things right. Maybe that's why the Bible says to not procrastinate your day of repentance.

takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

It's been written that, He who does not forgive is guilty of the greater sin. That verse had always confounded me. I had considered it unjust at best and cruel at worst. But these words were not meant as condemnation—rather as illumination of an eternal truth: that to not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.

often what we want most in life is just the chance to do what we should have done to begin with.

Some own up to their past. Some are owned by their past. The wise take what they can from the past and then leave it behind.

First, most people think the word prodigal means wayward or lost. It doesn't. Prodigal means lavish or wastefully extravagant. It's like spending money recklessly. It also means to give on a lavish scale. So, in the case of the prodigal son story, you could argue that the father was prodigal since he gave his love freely, on a lavish scale. You might even say recklessly.

We tend to demonize those we inflict pain on. It lessens our guilt.

We chain ourselves to those we don't forgive.

Love is full of pain and mistakes. That's what makes it interesting and that's why we explore relationships in literature. That whole 'love is never having to say you're sorry' crap is just that, crap. Love is learning how to say you're sorry.

Forgiveness is release — to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. To not forgive is to chain oneself to people and circumstances of the past. In doing so, our past becomes our future.

There isn't time for regret. There never is.

Just seeing the sign brought pain. There was so much I would do differently. I read somewhere that too often what we want most in life is just the chance to do what we should have done to begin with. I could relate to that.

people spend their entire lives wishing for a second chance to do what they should have done right the first time.

Ódio, ressentimento e raiva são parasitas que se alimentam do coração até que não haja nada para nutrir o amor." A Promessa.

Regret is a useless emotion.

A man cannot live his life by the calculations of retribution. I did what I had to do and hope the consequences are kind.

They say love is blind, but it's not. Infatuation is blind. Emotional neediness is blind. Love sees the fault—it just sees beyond it as well. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

Hating those boys didn't do anything to the boys, just to me. So I pushed them and all my hate from my heart. Once I did that, God came back in.

One cannot understand the power of grace until one has needed it. Or given it.

It's like they say, holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive