3,711 Quotes About Forgiveness

[Eva James] "I'm not very good at forgiveness."Liz nodded. "Not many people are. But what I've learned in life is that in order for true forgiveness to occur, something has to die first, Your expectations, or your circumstances. Maybe your heart. And that can be painful. But it's also incredibly liberating.

I've had so much time to think down here, and I want to say that I think that the most important thing in life are thankfulness, forgiveness, and love. Mama taught me to always be thankful. And when you say thank you it makes other people feel happy. And forgiveness, because, life is too short to be cross. It's also not fun. And, last but not least, love- because when you have love in your heart, nothing and no one can take it away from you.

God will forgive your sins if you forsake them.

So much of what we hear about forgiveness is wrong. It’s no virtue, and it’s a forced lie unless it happens naturally. We pretend to forgive, trick ourselves into it, because we’re expected to by people who don’t want to be made uncomfortable, not to relieve our own pain. It’s so one-sided, so dismissive, so quick to call a lack of forgiveness some sort of failing by the person who was wronged.

That's the thing about forgiveness; no one deserves it, but we give it anyway.

You gotta forgive boy," he told him, "otherwise you keep that with you, like one of those houses they put sandbags around to keep the floodwaters out. Nothin' comes in, but nothin' goes out either."..."You don't wanna be stuck," Mr. Tom said. "It's only a matter of pride.

God knows your faults, so He offers forgiveness.

Today I decided to forgive you. Not because you apologized, or because you acknowledged the pain that you caused me, but because my soul deserves peace.

If constant anger is what is real in here, we must address it – both for ourselves and for the other. Because it is not kind to keep those we can't forgive close to us and punish them forever. If we cannot forgive and move on, perhaps we need to move on first, and forgiveness will follow. Forgiveness does not mean access. We can give the other person the gift of forgiveness and ourselves the gift of safety and freedome at the very same time.