3,711 Quotes About Forgiveness

  • Author Margaret Atwood
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    The truth is that very few understand the truth about forgiveness. It is not the culprits who need to be forgiven; rather it is the victims, because they are the ones who cause all the trouble. If they were only less weak and careless, and more foresightful, and if they would keep from blundering into difficulties, think of all the sorrow in the world that would be spared.

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  • Author Debra Driza
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    Redemption didn't always lie in the forgiveness and approval of others. Sometimes, it had to be born inside ourselves, nurtured into bloom by conviction. Still. Forgiveness was nice.

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  • Author Elizabeth Smart
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    (Summarized)Forgiveness is a choice that presents itself to us in the form of three critical questions:1) Can I give up the hope of a better past?2) What is the day, the hour, the now - when I fulfill the promise to myself to let it go?3) How will I integrate what's happened into who I choose to become in the future?

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