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Quotes About Forgiveness

Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.
~ Leon Brown
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.
~ Margaret Cho
I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you, but I don't want anything else to do with you.
~ Ingmar Bergman
I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.
~ Eva Longoria
What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.
~ Peter Andre
God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.
~ James MacDonald
I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
~ Benjamin Jowett
I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to people who make millions by murdering other living creatures.
~ Geoffrey Giuliano
That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
~ Harper Lee
I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.
~ Jessica Hahn
I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.
~ Mitchell Baker
When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
~ Naomi Benaron
Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go.
~ Peter McWilliams
Never run out on me again. No matter what happens, you stay and fight. Yell at me, argue, throw something at me, whatever you want to do, but never walk away from me. Promise me that.
~ Maya Banks
Jesus doesn't care if you feel guilty. Jesus wants you to change.
~ Sarah Miles
Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.
~ Alice Walker
I can direct dial today a man my parents warred with. They wanted to kill him, I want to sell software to him.
~ Brad Templeton
but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.
~ Dean Young
I'll do whatever you want, whatever you need. Anything. Just take me back.
~ Sylvia Day
Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you
~ Ed Roland
And what if I don't want forgiveness?
~ Erica Jong
It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.
~ Gilbert Arenas
If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.
~ Jermain Defoe
Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God.
~ Joyce Meyer