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Quotes About Forgiveness

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.
~ Hugh Prather
I'll accept your apology on one condition." He folded his arms across his chest. "Anything?" "You trust me.
~ J. Lynn
The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her.
~ James Dashner
Learn to always trust God in all situation, learn to forgive those who wrong u in order to receive your daily bread from God
~ Idowu Ayodeji
The biggest mistake is not to forgive someone who broke your trust but to return him the previous version of you who trusted blindly.
~ Himmilicious
Never trust a person more than you, when they break the trust you lost the life of happiness, it shakes the heart and gives the tears for ever
~ Debolina
All I know is that I'm a sinner and that God has forgiven me of my sins. Because I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
~ Franklin Graham
When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.
~ S.N. Goenka
Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
~ Oscar Wilde
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred.
~ Vaclav Havel
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.
~ Nhat Hanh
Love truth, but pardon error.
~ Voltaire
Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.
~ Randy Alcorn
Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.
~ Adi Da
If it's forgiveness you want, you'd better start by forgiving yourself.
~ Shelly Thacker
He cleared his throat. "I wish I could take back what I said." He looked away. "I behaved like a thoin aiseal." "What does that mean?" "A donkey's arse." She glanced down at the furs, found herself fighting a smile. "And how do you pronounce that? I somehow suspect I may have need of that phrase again.
~ Shelly Thacker
On those days when we are not ready to stop being offended, not ready to forgive, still determined to dish out the silent treatment, what we are actually saying is, 'Thanks, but I don't want to become more like the Savior today. Maybe tomorrow, but not today.' Perhaps those are the times when we need to pray the hardest, the times it becomes clear that a change in behavior is not enough--that we must have a change in nature.
~ Sheri Dew
As loving mothers, we surely made mistakes. All parents do. But as kind and supportive parents, we did our best. We must recognize that no matter the choices our adult children make, their behavior doesn't diminish the good we did or continue to do. Someone's inability to see our value does not detract from our worth.
~ Sheri McGregor
There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.
~ Sheri Reynolds
The world," he resumed after a short pause, "has no faith in any man's conversion; it never forgets what he was, it never believes him anything better, it is an inexorable and stupid judge.
~ Sheridan Le Fanu
Deus misereatus mei (May God compassionate me)
~ Sheridan Le Fanu
Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1
~ Sherman Alexie