3,711 Quotes About Forgiveness

I have a forgiveness weakness in me that I hate because it means I'd probably forgive the man who removed my heart with a blunt knife if he said he needed it more than me.

I have no idea if any of this is my fault or if it's his fault or if it's no one's fault. The only thing I know is that he hurt me. And he hurt me because I've been hurting him. It doesn't make what he did right in any sense, but a person can understand a behavior without excusing it.

Rachel..."Don't you hate her for that?" Billy..."I used to, but I realized it was pointless and that sometimes in life you just have to forgive people, move on, and do your best to fix your own crap." ... "You can't live your life looking backward, Rachel." Chapter 10, page 109

I have lived a long time and I have learned that one must forgive oneself the past or else the journey into the the future becomes unbearable.

And then she moved on to the others, healing the traitors one by one, not seeing their faults, but seeing their possibilities.

You forgive yourself for what you've done," Edda told her. "You admit mistakes. You learn from them. And you improve.

And rising above it all doesn’t mean we are better than others, it means we have made the choice to be better inside out. It means we have opted for forgiveness, dropped the drama, the pity, and everything else that dwells in a lower vibe. It isn’t complicated.Rise.

Dr. MacBride had a manner of saying "pardon me," which rendered forgiveness well-nigh impossible.

Forgiveness is a tricky thing. We can say the word and never believe the word. Yet, for those of us blessed enough to truly experience the act of forgiveness, it’s an overwhelming sense of joy.