Quotes About Forgiveness

forgiveness is not a condoning of the unskillful act which has caused injury, but a touching of the actor with mercy and loving kindness.

As you forgive, you are allowing God to clean up the mess and start making your life right again. The demonic taunts are coming to an end. Peace is returning. Perhaps relationships are even being restored, and your faith is rising.

Honorable men refuse to wallow in the small and the bitter. Honorable men refuse to hate life because something once went wrong. Honorable men don't build monuments to their disappointments, nor do they let others brand them and curse them to their destruction. Honorable

It may be that hope misleads. But hate—hate corrupts. I have been too quick to hate. I become like what I abhor.

Stop, Morgian. Your wiles cannot avail you now.' He turned to the High King and said, 'The hurt this woman has done me, I readily forgive. It is for the harm that she has caused others that she is to be judged.

For ourselves, Mighty Father, I pray you keep us from the sin of hatred, keep us from the sin of vengeance, keep us from the sin of despair, but protect us from the wicked schemes of our enemies.

When you know love then that is the time you forget hate.

When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done. When you get to that time that is now, make a full and total forgiveness of your entire life and smile at the bouquet in your hands because it truly is beautiful.

The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.

If we truly love ourselves, in spite of our flaws, then we can love others in spite of theirs.

Do not let your anger lead to hatred, as you will hurt yourself more than you would the other.

Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you.

Mistakes are your school of learning therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning.

Stop harboring grudges against those who have wronged you, it just holds you back when you really want to be in the NOW.

It is easy to wish ill on others whom we feel deserve it, but remember that when you point a finger at another, three more are pointed back at you.

When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.

The fastest way to get lost is to go on a guilt trip!

The heart is where the journey of forgiveness begins.

You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.

Do not allow your sad past to rule your present situation. Unlike a tango, it does not take to two to forgive.

We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!

Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.

Big Rab has worked in Barlinnie's Wendy House for over seven and a half years. The average time a screw works in the seg blocks is two years, this man has seen it and done it all. Most prisoners will agree, he isn't a dog either but can be when he wants. He has had legendary roll abouts with some of Scotland's hardest criminals but at the end of it he doesn't hold any grudges.