3,711 Quotes About Forgiveness

I have learned to accept the things I don't approve and those I cannot change and I have learned to release and to love those who did the most hurtful things in my life. I must admit, it is the most difficult lesson to contain but it's worth it.

When you maintain bitterness and contempt towards someone, you’re actually binding yourself to them. You’ve given them a foothold in your life with an emotional connection that is stronger than any prison cell. It’s a jail sentence of solitary anger and animosity. Forgiveness is the ONLY thing that breaks that emotional bond. It’s the key that sets you free. ~Jason Versey

Forgiveness is NOT forgetness. If you forgive, remember to be wise enough NOT to forget.

Forgiveness from the heart is a knightly style of life.

Love always trust and forgives.

When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.

I’m beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.

When you are unable to forgive someone, you deny yourself a life free of anger and hate.

My definition of forgiveness is a sigh, very like a sigh of relief, on which the memory of evil is breathed out.With letting go of the memory, discontinuing the incessant replaying of pain, and instead feeling the unmitigated overness of the evil, the evildoer often looks quite different: flawed, like me, a child of God, like me. Forgiven, like me.