Forgiveness Quotes - Page 3

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills.

The only way to peace is forgiveness.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

Genuine forgiveness is participation, reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. . . We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near.