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Quotes About Forgiveness

To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.
~ Elton John
I believe in grace because I've seen it and peace because I've felt it and forgiveness because I've needed it.
~ George W. Bush
Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
~ Hannah More
As long as we hold unforgivable thoughts in our mind, we will not be able to experience total inner peace.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Violence can only breed more violence and suffering. Our struggle must remain non-violent and free of hatred.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
Ah! Happy they whose hearts can breakAnd peace of pardon win!How else may man make straight his pathAnd cleanse his soul from sin?How else but through a broken heartMay the Lord Christ enter in?
~ Oscar Wilde
The benefits of forgiveness are limitless.
~ Asa Don Brown
Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
~ Mackenzie Phillips
Hatred can be cured by love.
~ Radhe Maa
Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free.
~ Asa Don Brown
Forgive transgressions committed by you or others today.Only then can you have peace tomorrow.
~ Grandaddy BAD
You can't heal hurt with hate.
~ K.L. Hawker, Branded
There is always someone to forgive, if not another, than yourself.
~ Deborah L. Robinson
A peaceful heart forgives, and forgiveness will transform our lives and our planet.
~ Eileen Anglin
Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong.
~ Shannon L. Alder
Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts.
~ Asa Don Brown
Forgiveness empties the past of its power to empty the present of its peace.
~ L.R. Knost
Forgiveness, she was only required to accept the seed of healing, and to let it grow on its own time.
~ H. L. Balcomb
Kill him with your blessings of healing.
~ H. L. Balcomb
We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.
~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Never be too angry beyond repairs. Anger is nothing good to be part of your tributes. Are you angry with someone? The sun is sinking, just drop it now.
~ Israelmore Ayivor