Quotes About Forgiveness

If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness - changing your thoughts and energy around that person - can lower stress.

Letting yourself off the hook takes the stress away.

The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.

Do not let your divorce define you and the rest of your life. Let go of anger and embrace the future possibilities of infinitesimal happiness

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

Just because you made a mistake doesn't mean you are a mistake.

Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

It's an interesting thing to be in your forties and evaluate success and take ownership of some disasters and some pain and try to forgive a little bit - yourself and others.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.

Those who succeed can't forgive a fellow for being a failure, and those who fail can't forgive him for being a success.

God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent.

Truly generous men are always ready to feel compassion when their enemy's misfortune exceeds the bounds of their hatred.

He felt he had passed beyond the bounds of vengeance, and that he could no longer say, God is for and with me.

Adieu; I go far from men who thus so bitterly injure each other.

Yes; but one gets out of prison, said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, and when one gets out and one's name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge

for men who are truly generous are always ready to compassionate when the misfortune of their enemy surpasses the limits of their hatred.

At the end of every prayer introduced the entreaty oftener addressed to man than to God: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us. Yet in spite of his earnest prayers, Dantes remained a prisoner

Death is perhaps an ordeal, but it is not an expiation