Forgiveness Quotes - Page 20

Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

We who oppose abortion do not oppose those who have had abortions; rather, we embrace them with forgiveness and peace.

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.

To hate another is to hate yourself. We all live within the one Universal Mind. What we think about another, we think about ourselves. If you have an enemy, forgive him now. Let all bitterness and resentment dissolve. You owe your fellow man love; show him love, not hate. Show charity and goodwill toward others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

What power has love but forgiveness?

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

He who forgives readily only invites offense.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

Forgiveness is choosing to love.

If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.

...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.