Forgiveness Quotes - Page 23

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.

It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.

The human heart in its perversity finds it hard to escape hatred and revenge.

Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we're frantic, life will be frantic. If we're peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Do you think that every time you make a mistake, He is mad at you and won't talk to you...or that you must somehow make up for it?...Many Christians fail to experience real peace because they don't understand that they are righteous in Christ. Until people stop living according to the way they feel and stand on who they are in Christ, they will never find true happiness.

When you forgive, you must cancel the debt. Do not spend your life paying and collecting debts.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

When we judge, we are pushing people away; we are creating a wall, a barrier. When we forgive we are destroying barriers, we come closer to others.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

I think [forgiveness] may be the greatest virtue on earth, and certainly the most needed. There is so much of meanness and abuse, of intolerance and hatred. There is so great a need for repentance and forgiveness. It is the great principle emphasized in all of scripture, both ancient and modern. Somehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

The offender never pardons.

Never repeat old grievances.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive him or herself, even a little, is the moment in which he or she becomes to some degree lovable.

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

Compassion and love constitute non-violence in action. They are the source of all spiritual qualities: forgiveness, tolerance, all the virtues. They give meaning to our activities and makes them constructive. There is nothing amazing about being rich or highly educated; only when the individual has a warm heart do these attributes become worthwhile.