Quotes About Forgiveness

Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.

The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.

In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.

Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.

I was also in Glenochil Prison in 1992 when Hammy was stabbed five times in the chest and belly off another man called Fudge, but give Hammy his dues, he never tried to jail bait his attacker up. Fudge never got any more time to his sentence for the frenzied attack on Hammy. This man has also had pit bulls and rottweiler dogs set on him and guess what, he beat the dogs.

The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.

The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way.

The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.

When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.

Forgiveness does not change the past, that's for sure, but it does change the future.

I had forgotten the fact that I had been raped, something no one would understand, how could anyone forget something as traumatic as being raped?

You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.

The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.

One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.

By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU.

Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning.

The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player.

Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.

If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.

The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.

If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done.