Forgiving Quotes

“This is a day of celebration!
Today, we are divorcing the past
and marrying the present.
Dance,
and you will find God
in every room.
Today, we are divorcing resentment
and marrying forgiveness.
Sing,
and God will find you
in every tune.
Today, we are divorcing indifference
and marrying love.
Drink, and play that tambourine
against your thighs.
We have so much celebrating to do!”
― Kamand Kojouri

“I tend to walk around convinced that any amount of forgiveness that I could extend could never possibly compensate for the offenses that I’ve had to endure. Yet, maybe the greater offense is that I’ve got that backwards.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Understanding someone, is the sign of
True Maturity,
Forgiving them is that of True Wisdom.”
― Drishti Bablani, Wordions

“Forgiveness is the highest degree of a trust in a better man”
― Slaven Vujic

“If I expect nothing of you, it will be far easier to forgive your offenses than if I place my whole world in your hands.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“Forgiveness is valuable and important to relationships, but if your instinct is to withhold forgiveness, it is probably a good one.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“She tries to pronounce this in a way that communicates several things: apology, painful embarrassment, some additional feigned embarrassment that serves to ironise and dilute the painful kind, a sense that she knows she will be forgiven or is already, a desire not to ‘make a big deal’.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“...if a person remains in a state of unforgiveness the Spirit of the Lord will allow tormentors to enter him. That's what Christ told Peter when the disciple asked, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" (Matt. 18:21).”
― Benny Hinn, Good Morning, Holy Spirit

“We wind up in cells of our own making when we're not generous, loving, compassionate, and forgiving. Without love, we build dungeons in our hearts and fill them with our perceived enemies.”
― Martin Sheen, Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

“if love is not the answer, make sure to change the question.”
― Charlyn Khater

“True happiness is not money in the bank or a fancy home-it's a forgiving heart filled with love and gratitude”
― Charmaine J Forde

“So Anna did not blame the women of her time for what they had created; it was different only in kind from what she had made herself. And if the old soldiers wanted only to forgive, Anna understood that, too, though in her own memory she could no longer find anything that needed forgiving. In the sunlight by her cousin’s grave, she would touch the black ostrich plume in her hat—the plume that, like herself, grew a little older and little more frayed every year—and think about what all of it meant to her. Down the hill slept the soldiers, and she would visit certain of them in a little while, and the thought of them—their faces, their voices, their particular ways—always made her smile. General Nathan Bedford Forrest himself told her once that she had seen the last of a great army, but he was wrong in that, for they still moved out there in the sunlight, all of them. He was right about one thing though: there was no shame in it, not ever.”
― Howard Bahr, The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War

“Understanding someone is the sign of true maturity, forgiving them is that of true wisdom.”
― Drishti Bablani

“By forgiving, we become free to renew ourselves and open the joyful golden gate of abundance.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Of my father I know even less than of my mother. I do not even know his name. I have heard reports to the effect that he was a white man who lived on one of the near-by plantations. Whoever he was, I never heard of his taking the least interest in me or providing in any way for my rearing. But I do not find especial fault with him. He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.”
― Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

“Maybe in the end, not letting yourself forgive someone — you were the one who paid the price for that, nobody else.”
― Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains

“Loving-kindness always point in the direction of truthful,wise,compassionate,understanding and forgiving actions.”
― Celeste Hoeden

“Mercy is mercy.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Our ability to forgive depends more on how much we love than on how much we are loved.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“Not forgiving someone is like taking a poison and expecting the other person to die from it.”
― Amani Uswale-Nketia

“Humility helps us come to terms with what we cannot know. Patience takes the edge off when the hurt continues. Empathy is the gift that connects us with others. Forgiving ourselves for having such perfectly human reactions is harder than forgiving whatever caused them.”
― Laurie Nadel, The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes

“Forgive nothing until you are good and ready to, especially if there has been no indication that the behavior causing you distress has changed.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“Forgiving others is having power over the stars, forgiving yourself is having power over the moon.”
― Alan Maiccon

“Communicating is not the same as forgiving. Forgiving is communicating while contemplating life.”
― Alan Maiccon

“Out of all the million languages in the world, the difficult word is forgiving”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Christopher felt as if he were being followed. He actually glanced over his shoulder, half expecting to see death or the devil. It was the kind of morbid thought that had plagued him so mercilessly after the war. But far less often lately.
All because of Beatrix.
He felt a sudden pull in his chest, a yearning to go wherever she was, find her and draw her tightly against him. Last night it had seemed impossible to talk to her. Today he thought it might be easier. He would do anything to try and be the husband she needed. It would not be done in one fell swoop. But she was patient, and forgiving, and Dear Lord, he loved her for it.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon

“Forgiving executes inner beauty and brilliance of character, which enlightens the heart and mind.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Our readiness to forgive depends more on how much we love than on how much we are loved.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“What we really do not forgive those we love is not to not do what we want but to not want what we want.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“Forgiving each other just as in God forgave you.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita