Forgiveness Quotes

“You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their version of justice.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don’t think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.”
― Steve Goodier

“I hope my forgiveness reminds you,
Of the part you forgot to break in me.”
― Jenim Dibie

“I don’t want your apology. I want your obedience.”
― Tara Sue Me, The Collar

“Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died.”
― Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems

“Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it.”
― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life "Life is what you make it"

“The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“Let go of all your hurt and be healed.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Life is never easy for any one. Be gentle with one another.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The greatest conduct is love in action.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“It is better to avoid the temptation than get entangled in the sin.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Don’t Die™ Waiting to Be Brave is about the synchronistic nature of life, love, trust, gratitude, forgiveness and the crooked road of success.”
― Andrea T. Goeglein, Don't Die Waiting to Be Brave

“The greatest strength are rooted in love, joy, peace, patient, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I was thinking about changing into a different sort of person than the one I am. I do think about that. I read a book called The Art of Loving. A lot of things seemed clear while I was reading it but afterwards I went back to being more or less the same. What has Cam ever done that actually hurt me, anyway, as Haro once said. And how am I better than he is after the way i felt the night Mother lived instead of died? I made a promise to myself i would try.I went over there one day taking them a bakery cake - which Cam eats now as happily as anyone else - and I heard their voices out in the yard - now it’s summer, they love to sit in the sun - Mother saying to some visitor, “Oh, yes I was, I was all set to take off into the wild blue yonder, and Cam here, this idiot, came and danced outside my door with a bunch of his hippie friends - ‘
‘My God, woman,’ roared Cam, but you could tell he didn’t care now, ‘members of an ancient holy discipline.”
I had a strange feeling, like I was walking n coals and trying a spell so I wouldn’t get burnt.
Forgiveness in families is a mystery to me, how it comes or how it lasts”
― Alice Munro, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You

“Taking responsibility for your circumstances. Take responsibility. Be strong enough to admit your wrongs, ask for forgiveness, and think of constructive solutions to solve your problems.”
― Kevin J. Donaldson, 10 Secrets of the New Rich: Your Ultimate Motivational Guide to Achieving Personal Transformation, Mastering Entrepreneurship, and Joining the World's New Breed of Millionaires

“If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.”
― Matt Chandler

“Don’t harden your heart. Return to the Lord. He will revive and restore you.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Forgive means for get the hurt and give love.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Your blessings far outweigh your bitterness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“When we begin to love and care for each other, we will share our challenges.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“God is greatest physician.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I trade all my pains for peace of God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Sin drains strength.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness begins on ours.”
― L. G. Abell, A Mother's Book of Traditional Household Skills

“You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!”
― Stephen Richards

“The greatest force of humankind is the power of love.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The Lord healed all our wounds.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The deletion of logic is through....

Love
Acceptance
Forgiveness
Compassion
Understanding
Faith in the unknown
Present Moment Living
Conscious Breathing”
― Matthew Donnelly