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Quotes About Forgiveness

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Grace is not the freedom to sin; it is the power to live a holy life.
~ Joyce Meyer
No, you can't go getting mad at people because they're shitty. Life will get mad at them, don't worry.
~ Justin Halpern
Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.
~ Joyce Meyer
... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods
~ David Gemmell, Fall of Kings
There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day
Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.
~ John Paul DeJoria
Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.
~ Hillary Clinton
People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
I get on with all my exes, so there's nothing I need to forget about. I don't know - life is shorter than it seems.
~ Agyness Deyn
I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.
~ Andrew Solomon
While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.
~ Debbie Macomber
There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.
~ Robbie Williams
The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren't very lovable.
~ Aidan Chambers
Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
If you miss one moment of enjoying your own life and relationships because you're trying to punish someone else, the bad guy wins.
~ Amy Dickinson
We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?
~ Anne Rice
When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.
~ Apolo Ohno
It's a lot easier to like people when they can't make life miserable for you anymore.
~ Carol Kendall
I don't want to ever, ever give that kind of pain to one living mortal. And I will not give that thought power in my life. That's my practice.
~ Caroline Myss
Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one.
~ Cassandra Clare
Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.
~ Cathy Moriarty
In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.
~ Charles Dickens
[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.
~ Charles Frazier