Forgiveness QuotesForgiveness quotes hold the power to change your life in many positive ways. Study them. You will discover forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves. We give our power away to any person we refuse to forgive. Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the hearts and cools the sting. Peter Allen Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt Without forgiveness life is governed by…an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. Roberto Assagioli One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed. Bernard M. Baruch I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against me. Henry Ward Beecher Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. Luke 6:37 Be kind to unkind people - they need it most! Ashleigh Brilliant To understand everything is to forgive everything. Buddha Be not afraid because you have faltered anywhere. For He has said, I forgive, even as you forgive others. Then how forgiving are you? Answer this, and you will know just how you have been forgivien. It is the law, it is the Lord, it is love. Edgar Cayce To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. G. K. Chesterton Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everthing, you will be happiest. Sri Chinmoy Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other. Judy Collins The more a man knows, the more he forgives. Confucius To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. Confucius Life is an adventure in forgiveness. Norman Cousins I forgive myself for having believed for so long that…I was never good enough to have, get, be what I wanted. Ceanne De Rohan If love is truly a verb, if help is a verb, if forgiveness is a verb, if kindness is a verb, then you can do something about it. Betty Eadie Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Carrie Fisher Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die. Debbie Ford The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. Viktor Frankl He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. Mahatma Gandhi The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Mahatma Gandhi As long as you don’t forgive, you and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. Isabelle Holland If you haven’t forgiving yourself something, how can you forgive others? Dolores Huerta The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness. Gerald Jampolsky Forgiveness means letting go of the past. Gerald Jampolsky We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. Martin Luther King, Jr. It’s possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh. Carolyn Llewellyn If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry W. Longfellow To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. Robert Muller Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectation that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Sara Paddison Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills. Catherine Ponder The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. Catherine Ponder To err is human, to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be. Charles R. Swindoll Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Mark Twain To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. William H. Walton Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give. William Arthur Ward Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you. William Arthur Ward Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always. Dan Zadra Forgiveness means you do not hold others responsible for your experience. Gary Zukav Return from Forgiveness Quotes and Sayings about Resentment to the Quotes Listed by Subject page
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