Forgiving Quotes

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  • When we are motivated by compassion and wisdom, the results of our actions benefit everyone, not just our individual selves or some immediate convenience. When we are able to recognize and forgive ignorant actions of the past, we gain strength to constructively solve the problems of the present.

    Life   Spiritual   Past  
  • You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!

    Soul   Forgiving   Crime  
  • Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

    FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Jan 11, 2012
  • Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

  • Forgive thyself little, and others much.

  • Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.

    Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.138, Vivekananda Kendra
  • Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

    "No Greater Love".
  • I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

    Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.138, Bantam
  • You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.

  • Our sins are never too great for God to forgive.

    Forgiving   Sin  
  • Life's too short not to forgive.

    Miranda Kenneally (2013). “Miranda Kenneally Bundle: Catching Jordan, Stealing Parker, Things I Can't Forget”, p.669, Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • I tell of hearts and souls and dances... Butterflies and second chances; Desperate ones and dreamers bound, Seeking life from barren ground, Who suffer on in earthly fate The bitter pain of agony hate, Might but they stop and here forgive Would break the bonds to breathe and live And find that God in goodness brings A chance for change, the hope of wings To rest in Him, and self to die And so become a butterfly.

    Pain   Hate   Heart  
  • It appears that the ground of being which underlies and sustains us despite our various inadequate and conflicting stories must be extremely tolerant, generous, and forgiving. All things considered, it wouldn't hurt if we were, too.

  • We are vengeful. God is forgiving. We remember. God redeems.

  • We are required to forgive everyone.

    Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.30, Egmont UK
  • Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug

    Evil   Forgiving   Done  
  • Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

  • A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

  • I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

  • It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.

  • Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

    Quoted in Nancy McPhee, The Second Book of Insults (1981)
  • How to forgive a murderer? First, by differentiating his sufferings from his exploitation of death to ease them. For his sufferings - greed, jealousy, frustration - he will need reeducation, support and, compassion. For our outrage about murder, we need to examine deeply our faith in death. As long as we collectively believe that death has power over life, we will spawn deluded, self-appointed little gods who want that power.

    D. Patrick Miller (2009). “The Way of Forgiveness: Letting Go, Easing Stress, and Building Strength”, p.30, Fearless Books
  • But that's how life is. You never know how it's going to turn out, and you can't plan for everything. You just have to do your best dealing with things as they come and hope people forgive you when you make a mistake.

  • When others hurt us in ways we don't deserve, at some point we will come to the crossroads of decision. We will have to look our pain square in the face and ask, "Am I going to hang on to my anger and do violence to myself, or am I going to forgive those who have wounded me? Am I going to allow bitterness to poison and putrefy my soul, or am I going to invite God to empower me to let the anger go?"

    Hurt   Pain   Squares  
  • To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

  • Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

    Forgiveness   Blow   Men  
    Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings"
  • we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

    P.D. James (2012). “Innocent Blood”, p.388, Simon and Schuster
  • I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never.

  • Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

    "Fictional character: David Rossi". "Criminal Minds". Season 7, Episode 2: "Proof", September 28, 2011.
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