Forgiveness Quotes - Page 10

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving.

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you've got and remember what you had...Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

With a little time, and a little more insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really as innocent as we felt when we were first hurt. And we do not usually have a gigantic monster to forgive; we have a weak, needy, and somewhat stupid human being. When you see your enemy and yourself in the weakness and silliness of the humanity you share, you will make the miracle of forgiving a little easier.

You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

We are not on this planet to ask forgiveness of our deities.

Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or shape of the lamp; it only matters that the lamp is plugged in. With every prayer, every thought of forgiveness, every meditation, every act of love, we plug in. The more of us who plug in, to more the darkness of the world will be cast from our midst. Today, let's all increase love's wattage!

No matter what your past has been, your future is spotless.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.