Quotes on Forgiveness

Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

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

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkof was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America. His answer..."I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.

If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.

To write is human, to edit is divine.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need.

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.