3,711 Quotes About Forgiveness

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves.

How can you love those who have stolen from you, assaulted or abused you, or tried to blow you up and completely destroy you? How can you forgive those who have kidnapped, tortured and killed someone you love? Yet this is where reconciliation has to begin.

Sometimes we wait too long for the forgiveness of our fathers.

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.

Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it’s one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet."May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from his heart.

I don’t want God's forgiveness. And He’s not getting mine.~Harry Silver

What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light.

Help us to forgive ourselves as we struggle in our process of forgiving others."~R. Alan Woods [2013]