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Forgiveness Is Quotes

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain

True forgiveness is when you can say, Thank you for that experience.
- Oprah Winfrey

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.
- Oprah Winfrey

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!
- Max Lucado

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.
- Katherine Applegate

Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE!
- Dana Arcuri

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
- Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
- Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
- Saint Augustine

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
- Saint Augustine Of Hippo

I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don't even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he's worthy of even considering it, and I just don't see that happening.
- P C Cast

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.
- Jim Bakker

Sometimes forgiveness is the
hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.
- Maya Banks

Forgiveness is the better part of valor. (Acheron)
I always thought it was 'discretion.' (Thanatos)
Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. (Acheron)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Forgiveness is the best part of valor...Discretion is easy. It's finding the courage to forgive yourself and others that is hard. [Acheron]
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

The point is that although love may die, what is said on its behalf cannot be consumed by the passage of time, and forgiveness is everything.
- Charles Baxter

Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.
- Jim Beaver

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
- Desmond Tutu

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.
- Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
- Corrie Ten Boom

... but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger will poison you. You have to learn to let it go"... "people have reasons for doing the things that they do, especially when they care about you. You may not always understand what they are, but if you can try to understand the person then you might see that they really care, despite what happened."
pg 100 Meredith to Vlad
- Heather Brewer

Forgiveness is God's greatest gift
- Dan Brown

Forgiveness is freedom. It's something you do for yourself - to keep who you are intact. Now that I think about it - in some ways, it's kind of a selfish act.
- Anne Greenwood Brown

Forgiveness is not a one off decision; it is a journey and a process that takes time, determination, and persistence. Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life.
- Corallie Buchanan

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
- Louisferdinand Celine

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
- Mary Boykin Chesnut

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
- Mason Cooley

Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.
- Josee D Amore

Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable.
- Sarah Dessen

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
- W Paul Young

Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly. Do you think this man cares about the pain and torment you have gone through? If anything, he feeds on that knowledge. Don't you want to cut that off? And in doing so, you'll release him from a burden that he carries whether he knows it or not--acknowledges it or not.
- W Paul Young

Forgiveness is not about forgetting, Mack. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
- W Paul Young

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
- Martin Luther King Jr

Forgiveness is a funny thing. We act like it has to be earned, as if there are a certain number of hoops someone can jump through to make us forget that they hurt us. But forgiveness can't be earned! It can only be given freely, as a gift!
- Louisa Edwards

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.
- Richard Paul Evans

forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice
- Diana Gabaldon

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
- Indira Gandhi

You healed my heart and taught me that forgiveness is about love. I used to think that any man of mine had to live up to a list of my expectations. I was wrong. Love has no list. You are the pinch in my heart. The catch in my breath. The reason my stomach tumbles and why I lie awake at night just to look at you. And every time I look at you, I know that I want to look at you forever
- Rachel Gibson

Forgiveness isn't my best thing.
Easier staying pissed. But I'm
tired of being pissed all the time.
Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that
can never be fixed because it is
an indelible part of the past.
- Ellen Hopkins

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
- Dag Hammarskjold

Forgiveness is a powerful thing.
- Elin Hilderbrand

Forgiveness is what sets us free... Forgiveness= freedom
- Shelley Hitz

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
- Gerald Jampolsky

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
- Jewel

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.
- Graham Joyce

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
- Joyce Meyer

Forgiveness is healingeverything is energythoughts createwe are all connectedwhat you resist persiststrue love never diesthe soul's immortality is the only true immortality
- Alyson Noel

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
- Nicole Kidman

Forgiveness is God's command.
- Martin Luther

The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.
- Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
- Harold Kushner

Forgiveness isn't something I'm preoccupied with turning the other cheek isn't my trip.
- Karl Lagerfeld

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
- Karl Lagerfeld

Who was it who said that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past?
- Anne Lamott

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
- Anne Lamott

Forgiveness is having given up all hope of having had a better past.
- Anne Lamott

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
- C S Lewis

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive
- C S Lewis

Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
- C S Lewis

Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.
- Barry Lyga

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
- George Macdonald

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

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
- Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
- Marianne Williamson

The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order to earn forgiveness; it is what we do because we have been forgiven. It serves as an expression of gratitude rather than an effort to earn forgiveness. Thus the sequence of forgiveness and then repentance, rather than repentance and then forgiveness, is crucial for understanding the gospel of grace.
- Brennan Manning

Forgiveness is a tough thing. Both in the offering...and the accepting.
- Charles Martin

That's not very attractive behavior, Bella." he said. " Forgiveness is divine.
"Mind your own buisness.
- Stephenie Meyer

Forgiveness is the fastest way to a spiritual path and inner peace of mind
- Muhaya Haji Mohamad

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
- Hannah More

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance.
- Jonathan Nolan

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.
- Henri Nouwen

Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.
- Jennifer Oneill

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.
- Catherine Ponder

Forgiveness is not an occassional act; it is a permanent attitude.
- James Van Praagh

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.
- Fred Rogers

You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice.
- Sonia Rumzi

Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward. A good man will endure all things to honor Christ.
- Joseph Smith Jr

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
- Betty Smith

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
- Suzanne Somers

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.
- Andy Stanley

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.
- Cheryl Strayed

...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgiveness is generous or selfish. Maybe both.
- Miguel Syjuco

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
- William Arthur Ward

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person's face. When you forgive, it's like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.
- Louis Zamperini

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