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Quotes About Forgiveness

Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain't nothing, don't believe him. And if he can't learn to love you, you should leave him.
~ Tupac Shakur
Shame is removed through love.
~ Danny Silk
Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.
~ Desmond Tutu
Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.
~ Douglas Horton
I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.
~ Little Richard
If you can see the terrorists as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine and the medicine is love and compassion. There's nothing better.
~ Richard Gere
If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.
~ Rick Warren
Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.
~ Deborah Day
Everyone has a past, but that's just it--it's in the past. You can learn from it, but you can't change it.
~ Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
Love reacts with goodness towards those who ill-treat it.
~ Alistair Begg
It is better to put on the brakes sooner, for some fine day you begin to understand — to pardon everything — and then where is the charm of life, if you cannot love or hate any more?
~ Arthur Schnitzler
When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you're free.
~ Bernie Siegel
How about you hate your sin, and I'll hate my sin and we'll just love each other!
~ Mark Lowry
The Savior taught us to love not only our friends but also those who disagree with us- and even those who repudiate us.
~ Neil L. Andersen
The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.
~ Nelson Mandela
As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.
~ Oscar Romero
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
~ Viola Davis
Each time you send love in response to hate, you diffuse the hate.
~ Wayne Dyer
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.
~ Jean Giraudoux
God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada