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Quotes About Forgiveness

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.
~ Max Lucado
Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
~ Aesop
Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
~ Honore de Balzac
To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.
~ Jack Kornfield
Make it look like your skin is not so angry at you for your bad life choices.
~ Jenna Marbles
Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.
~ Sting
Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.
~ Peter Singer
Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.
~ Preston Sturges
What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.
~ Robbie Williams
Life becomes easier when learn to accept the apology you never got.
~ Robert Breault
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
~ Cyril Connolly
Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.
~ David Rakoff
Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.
~ David Simon
How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human.
~ Frank Warren
I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.
~ Patti LaBelle
Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.
~ Judith Guest, Ordinary People
I wondered about the half-life of regret.
~ Lorrie Moore
When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.
~ Gary Zukav
Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.
~ George MacDonald
Tolerated people are never conciliated. They live on, but the aroma of their life is lost.
~ George Santayana
If we had to tolerate in others all that we permit in ourselves, life would become completely unbearable.
~ Georges Courteline
There's no human remedy for sin.
~ Henry R Brandt