Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness is.... giving up the hope that you can change the past.

Everything you blame, you're stuck with. Bless it. Wish it well. Wish it its own freedom, and it will be very powerful in the way that it will not come back to you. If you don't forgive it, if you don't bless it, if you don't wish it well, the energy will just be magnetically drawn back to you because it's looking for resolution. All negative energy that we've inherited, it's there because it's looking for resolution. — Adyashanti

Forgiveness is about letting go of the past and not holding on to it

You will forgive because you love yourself so much that you don't want to keep hurting yourself for whatever happened. Whatever happened is done and cannot be changed. And we have to accept that and keep going with our life. — Don Miguel Ruiz

Mercy is like a mirror. I think mercy is what you give to others with the hope that it will come back to you. It's what you give to people who don't deserve it. It's what you give to people who haven't asked for it. It's what you give and it will come back. — Bryan Stevenson

True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different." It's accepting the past for what it was and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward. — Opra

You can't get mercy unless you give it. You can't receive compassion unless you give it.

Turn your heart toward what is good by cultivating forgiveness and compassion and mindful presence.

You will forgive because you love yourself so much that you don't want to keep hurting yourself for whatever happened. Whatever happened is done and cannot be changed. And we have to accept that and keep going with our life. — Don't Miguel Ruiz

My highest achievement: never shutting down my heart. Even in my darkest moments—through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals—I remained faithful, hopeful, and willing to see the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I continued to believe that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.

Pero aquella torpe relación mía con la religión nunca me mantuvo alejado de los temas metafísicos y religiosos. Siempre mantenía en un rincón de mi mente el razonamiento de que si Dios, aunque no pudiera creer en él como a mí me habría gustado, era un ser omnisciente como decían, sería sin duda muy inteligente y entendería por qué yo era incapaz de creer y me perdonaría

Nothing is more foolish, nothing more wicked than to drag the skeletons of the past, the hideous images, the foolish deeds, the unfortunate experiences of yesterday into today's work to mar and spoil it. There are plenty of people who have been failures up to the present moment who could do wonders in the future if they only could forget the past, if they only had the ability to cut it off, to close the door on it forever and start anew.

How many people delay the kindness, the expression of love, until the person is dead, beyond their reach, and then try to atone for a neglected past by flowers and tears at the funeral!

If a man purposely does me wrong," a Buddhist says, "I will return him my ungrudging love; the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.' Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians.

I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.

This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances? Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego. You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.

When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes.

He'd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can't call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again.

As I recall, St. Paul stood by and held the coats of the men who were stoning him (Stephen). Apparently he wasn't a believer at the time. In fact, I think he was regarded as the most terrible enemy of the Church. And yet he later repented, didn't he? So I suggest you think of me, not as the enemy of God, but as an apostle who has not yet been stopped on the road to Damascus