Forgiveness Quotes - Page 26

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat of their pain is a response to the beat of yours, they have become truthful in their feelings...they have moved a step closer to a truthful reunion.

We forgive freely or we do not really forgive at all.

One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

The brave only know how to forgive.

A coward never forgives.

In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Remembrance of Jesus' passion will heal your soul of resentment, by making it ashamed of itself when it remembers the patience of the Lord. Some people have wearied themselves and suffered for a long time in order to extract forgiveness. By far the best course, however, is to forget the offences, since the Lord says: "Forgive at once and you will be forgiven in generous measure." (cf. Luke 6:37-38)

Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option.

Forgiveness entails the authentic acceptance of our own worthiness as human beings, the understanding that mistakes are opportunities for growth, awareness and the cultivation of compassion, and the realization that the extension of love to ourselves and others is the glue that holds the universe together. Forgiveness...is not a set of behaviors, but an attitude.

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Forgiveness saves the expense of anger.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Forgiveness and reconciliation are not just ethereal, spiritual, other-worldly activities. They have to do with the real world. They are realpolitik, because in a very real sense, without forgiveness, there is no future.

Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember that to get the bell ringing you have to tug awhile. Once it has begun to ring, you merely maintain the momentum. As long as you keep pulling, the bell keeps ringing. Forgiveness is letting go of the rope. It is just that simple. But when you do so, the bell keeps ringing. Momentum is still at work. However, if you keep your hands off the rope, the bell will begin to slow and eventually stop.

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does.

Let bygones be bygones.

Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.

Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.