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Your refusal to forgive one who has sinned against you us a manifestation of hypocrisy - a telltale sign that either you have not experenced God's forgiving grace, or that you take such grace for granted.
— Joe Thorn
Love is an active action.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Repentance is words, God forgives the kind.
— Sixeye
You go on by doing the best you can. You go on by being generous. You go on by being true. You go on by offering comfort to others who can't go on. You go on by allowing the unbearable days to pass and allowing the pleasure in other days. You go on by finding a channel for your love and another for your rage.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Never leave a situation unless you know what you needed and what you were never going to get.
— Shannon L. Alder
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick,Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my furyDo I take part.
— William Shakespeare, The Tempest
My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know!
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
To forgive someone means to let him off the hook, or to cancel a debt he owes you. When you refuse to forgive someone, you still want something from that person, and even if it is revenge you want, it keeps you tied to him forever.
— Henry Cloud, Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control.
— J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
Forgiveness is given to us from God not because we deserve it. Forgiveness is given to us by the grace of God.(Paraphrased message from the Bible.)
— Dortha Jackson
Oh, miss Haversham said I,there have been sore mistakes and my life has been a blind and thankless one, and I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you.
— Charles Dickens
God allows us to have a personal relationship with himself and he forgives and loves us as children. If God forgives our such great sins against his Son should we not forgive such little sins against ourselves?
— Greg  Gordon
Jesus teaches us to bless our enemies (Matthew 5:44) To bless those who curse us (Luke 6:28). To “never avenge yourselves” (Romans 12:19). When we truly forgive someone, we need to come to the place where we can bless them and desire God’s blessing also on their lives.
— Greg  Gordon
If you carry offense in your heart, it is too early for you to start your team
— Sunday Adelaja
Patience is underscored with forgiveness.
— Sunday Adelaja
Alone, [Chamcha] all at once remembered that he and Pamela had once disagreed, as they disagreed on everything, on a short-story they’d both read, whose theme was precisely the nature of the unforgivable. Title and author eluded him, but the story came back vividly. A man and a woman had been intimate friends (never lovers) for all their adult lives. On his twenty-first birthday (they were both poor at the time) she had given him, as a joke, the most horrible, cheap glass vase she could find, in colours a garish parody of Venetian gaiety. Twenty years later, when they were both successful and greying, she visited his home and quarrelled with him over his treatment of a mutual friend. In the course of the quarrel her eye fell upon the old vase, which he still kept in pride of place on his sitting-room mantelpiece, and, without pausing in her tirade, she swept it to the floor, crushing it beyond hope of repair. He never spoke to her again; when she died, half a century later, he refused to visit her deathbed or attend her funeral, even though messengers were sent to tell him that these were her dearest wishes. ‘Tell her,’ he said to the emissaries, 'that she never knew how much I valued what she broke.’ The emissaries argued, pleaded, raged. If she had not known how much meaning he had invested in the trifle, how could she in all fairness be blamed? And had she not made countless attempts, over the years, to apologize and atone? And she was dying, for heaven’s sake; could not this ancient, childish rift be healed at last? They had lost a lifetime’s friendship; could they not even say goodbye? 'No,’ said the unforgiving man. – 'Really because of the vase? Or are you concealing some other, darker matter?’ – 'It was the vase,’ he answered, 'the vase, and nothing but.’ Pamela thought the man petty and cruel, but Chamcha had even then appreciated the curious privacy, the inexplicable inwardness of the issue. 'Nobody can judge an internal injury,’ he had said, 'by the size of the superficial wound, of the hole.
— Salman Rushdie
Accept each other's fault with brotherly love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn't run there, though, because it didn't exist yet; I had to build it myself, out of forgiveness, truth, and terrifying gestures of friendship.
— I.W. Gregorio, None of the Above
Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore.
— Auliq Ice
I cannot protect my children from my weaknesses. As hard as I may try, at some point my sin will affect their lives. However, the way I deal with my failure can provide an example for them to follow. I am a sinner raising sinners. Each of my children will face the weight and sorrow of his or her own sins. Just as we teach daily hygiene habits like brushing teeth, our children need instruction on how to find cleansing for their souls. By teaching our children about confession and repentance as well as grace and forgiveness, we bless their lives for years to come.
— Melissa B. Kruger, Walking with God in the Season of Motherhood: An Eleven-Week Devotional Bible Study
Life is forgiving and amazing. Embrace it. Cultivate it. Make it yours!
— Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
She [Catherine of Siena] found a place of refuge in a lonely wood, where some hermits lived. It is generally thought that this brotherhood was the community of hermits in Vallombrosa, founded by St. John Gualbert, the man who had spared the life of his deadly enemy because it was Good Friday, and later rushed into the nearest church and fell before the feet of the crucified Christ, as though drunk with this adventure - the adventure of forgiveness. And the Saviour leaned down from the cross and kissed the boy.
— Sigrid Undset, Catherine of Siena
If what you need, in order to feel good about yourself later on, is to show him some mercy - then show him mercy. If you need to tell him the truth, do that. But try to look at in terms of what you're going to be able to live with ten, twenty years down the line.
— Jason Schmidt, A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me
It‘s utterly astounding that every time I get knocked down God’s mercy compassionately raises me to my feet; His grace thoroughly brushes off every trace of assorted filth I accumulated in the fall, His word precisely recalibrates my direction to insure the success of a journey resumed, and once all of that is completed He gently leans over and whispers, “How about another run?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
Forgiveness doesn’t make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It’s turning back toward being what we really are.
— Edward Fahey, The Gardens of Ailana
God doesn’t care how well you can preach about forgiveness… what He looks at is your behavior when presented the opportunity to practice it.
— Steve Maraboli
Your dad's story is over. In six months or a year, this will be done for him. He won't be dealing with the consequences of what you choose to do now. You will. So you make this decision based on what you need.
— Jason Schmidt, A List of Things That Didn't Kill Me
Whenever relationships can't be restored, it's because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God.
— Matt      Chandler, Recovering Redemption: How Christ Changes Everything, Member Book
Still hurting so much today from what my prior Pastor and 19church board did to me last year, and I really want to get past that. I want and need to forgive them, to move on with my life and look forward, forget the past.
— Michael Richard Stosic, Thirty-Nine Days
Our ability to forgive is a direct measure of our hope
— Our patience is a measure of our humility
Mercy is just when it is rooted in hopefulness and freely given. Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving. The people who haven’t earned it, who haven’t even sought it, are the most meaningful recipients of our compassion.
— Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
I guess we'll never know exactly what ... the reasons behind the losses we experience in this life. But being angry doesn't make them any less devastating. It only robs us of the happiness and love we can experience. Only forgiveness can set us free.
— Christene Houston, A Heart So Broken
I need to learn not just to forget but to forgive.
— Haruki Murakami, Kino
Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy!
— Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365
Hate destroys a bridge but forgiveness rebuilds it.
— Debasish Mridha
Regret isn't real. It's something invented to punish ourselves
— Robin Bielman, Blame it on the Kiss
Forgiveness comes later in life, after you've created enough disasters of your own.
— Mat Johnson, Loving Day
Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. You won't be able to forgive yourself for not doing things differently until you stop wishing things were different
— Zoe York, Love on a Spring Morning
What allowed me to take that first step, to choose growth and risk rejection? In the fixed mindset, I had needed my blame and bitterness. It made me feel more righteous, powerful, and whole than thinking I was at fault. The growth mindset allowed me to give up the blame and move on. The growth mindset gave me a mother.
— Carol S. Dweck
... forgiveness is a religious imperative: forgive those who trespass against you. But it is also a very practical strategy based on the belief that there are profound limits to what the formal mechanisms of retribution can accomplish.
— Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I mean, there are highlights. And there are streaks. And then there are skunk stripes.
— John Green, Paper Towns
Change is inevitable, so accept it.Forgiveness is a gift, so give it.Love is abundant, so spread it.Failure is not fatal, do don't fear it.Life is for living, so live it.
— Debasish Mridha
I am speaking from experience when I say that forgiveness offered - especially when so undeserved - cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break.
— Charles Martin, A Life Intercepted
Now, we all have stories of how we got here, and prob-probably some of you feel angry who whoever it is who's left you here. But you must try and remember that they were like that because that's how they were taught to be. You m-must try to forgive them. Baby cuckoos can't unlearn their bad habits. But we should try to, and because what you learn as a ch-child you will pass on to people around you, from now on this house is going to be a house of happiness. From this evening on every single one of us is going to consider other people's feelings.
— Georgia Byng
You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
It hadn't escaped her notice that when she let him believe the worst of her, still he vowed to stand beside her and work toward forgiveness.
— Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams
There is help for the helpless, hope for the hopeless, and forgiveness for the inexcusable.
— Mary A. Pérez
Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics
sometimes forgiving someone it's not because he's really sorry and deserved it, but because we were worthy of tranquility.
— Glad Munaiseche
Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness.
— Gary Rohrmayer
The gospel is not mere forgiveness or grace, empty of content, but always refers to Jesus. So the gospel is good news about a human person who is God in our history, our world and who came to accomplish something in his life death and resurrection.
— William McDavid, Law & Gospel: A Theology for Sinners
People hated and killed each other back then. Now even those who survived are dying, leaving this world one by one. Unless we find a way to forgive one another, none of us will ever be able to see each other again. (2007: 88)
— Hwang Sok-yong, The Guest
A delicate balance is required: keep the penitent tautly close to the point of recognizing sin, and then allow the relief of that pressure to flow through forgiveness. Confession increases this tautness, only to clear the path for release.
— Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
Sins of ignorance or infirmity are to be admonished in a different way than intentional sins of malice of intention. The assurance of forgiveness is not to be offered carelessly by those whose conscience is seared, but to penitents who come contritely to the table of the Lord.
— Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
Sins that have been completely absolved on one occasion sometimes on other occasions cannot be completely forgotten or set aside. They may continue to have a ripple effect. But it is comforting to realize that they are no longer remembered by God, even if traces remain in human memory.
— Thomas C. Oden, Corrective Love: The Power of Communion Discipline
Forgiveness is not an event. It is a series of decisions made over and over again.
— Karen Salmansohn
Practice mercy and forgiveness throughout as a lesson that symbolizes the love shown through his crucifixion.
— Unarine Ramaru
Sometimes people aren't hating on you. Because they feel a certain way about themselves, they just don't know how to be happy for you.
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved - cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break....love did what hatred can not and never will.
— Charles Martin
When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Understanding is used too often as a convenient means to avoid and sidestep the process of acknowledging the hurts and wounds (which makes forgiving more effective). We cannot truly forgive until we admit that the offense is as wounding as it really is, and therefore really does need to be forgiven. When understanding becomes the substitute not only for forgiving but for sharing about feelings, healing does not occur.
— Charles Finck, As We Forgive Those
You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of this life to the other, you carry with you all that you have done. Absolution grants you forgiveness for it, but does not expunge the past. The man you were still lives within you, repressed by the man you have struggled to become.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
Letting go of the past does not mean that we should try to forget everything that has happened to us and not learn anything from our previous thinking patterns and actions. Letting go simply means that we do not allow the past to control our current thoughts and actions.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Living in the Spirit of Yoga: Take Yoga Off the Mat and Into Your Everyday Life
The universe does not work in phrases
—  don’t focus on the commas
When we forgive, our emotions evolve and reveal the futility of carrying the baggage of anger, antipathy, hostility and hatred. We emerge out of those dark corridors of fear, angst and insecurity.
— Balroop Singh
we all love people in our life. way of expressing it may change but the intensity never fluctuates. there are comparisons and fights in any relation because of the same reason of their existence.
— Auliq Ice
When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
Love melts. Love heals. Love unites. Love forgives. A Divine Union that goes beyond time and space, that’s what I’m looking for—
— Nityananda Das
Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence.
— Orrin Woodward
Not only is forgiveness the most tender part of love, it is always a choice and always accompanied by unconditional love. May you always be forgiving,kind and gracious, especially when others are undeserving.
— Rhonda Louise Robbins
You shouldn't ask for forgiveness. Because if you ask someone to forgive you, and they do, then that's twice that you've taken something from them. First the betrayal, and then the absolution.
— Meg Howrey, The Cranes Dance
Forgiveness is probably the most important self-esteem building process anyone can undertake. Forgiveness is an internal response to the fact that we cannot, under any circumstances, change the past. The only things we can change are our thoughts about the past. Forgiveness happens when we stop wishing for a better past and understand that we are carrying hatred, anger and resentment within us.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics
While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like 'wormwood and gall'), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God's love, new every morning. God's mercy is not spent even with our worst misdeeds.
— Thomas C. Oden, Guilt Free
Christian consciousness experiences itself in a curious sense as LIBERATED TO FAIL, without intolerable damage to self-esteem and without any reduction of moral seriousness. We are free to be inadequate, free to foul things up, and yet affirm ourselves in a more basic sense than the secular moralist or humanistic idealist (who can affirm themselves only on the basis of merits and accomplishments. We are free to choose and deny finite values, free to take constructive guilt upon us and to see it as an inevitable and providentially given aspect of our fallen human condition.All that we have said leads us to the pinnacle of this good news: In Jesus Christ we need no longer be guilty before God. It is only before our clay-footed gods that we stand guilty!
— Thomas C. Oden, Guilt Free
Before whom am I guilty? Myself and my gods. But before God? I would be guilty before God IF God had not disclosed himself as forgiving, taking my place, rendering a verdict of pardon upon me. But upon that IF hinges the force of justification by grace through faith alone. For precisely amid our failure to actualize values we mistakenly imagine as ultimate, God himself continues to perceive us AS IF we were clothed in Christ's own righteousness. The Reformation formula, simul peccator et justus, meant: I am a sinner, deserving condemnation for my idolatry; but from God's point of view I am AT THE SAME TIME pardoned, regarded as if the charge against me were canceled out! the final verdict is thus not the one I give myself or the one that may be given in the courts of law or gossip or peer pressure. Rather, it is what God himself has decided about my situation, how he has regarded and perceived me. Through God's own incomparable initiative, our sin is not remembered against us, even though we may oddly persist in remembering it against ourselves.
— Thomas C. Oden, Guilt Free
Despite the sorrows of sin, you can count on God’s faithfulness and forgiveness.
— Jim George
You want to know what price I asked for forgiving Arobynn, Celaena?" Sam stood so still the he might have been a statue. "My price was his oath that he'd never lay a hand on you again. I told him I'd forgive him in exchange for that.
— Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade
When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
If you keep your heart open, that same pain can become a purifying pain, a strengthening pain. If we choose forgiveness over bitterness, that pain can heal instead of hurt. Instead of a pain that divides, it can be a pain that binds. Instead of a pain that breaks us down, it can be a pain that builds us up.
— Seth Adam Smith
A life lived without forgiveness is a life lived in the past.
— Asa Don Brown
Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.
— David Vann, Aquarium
When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind.
— Jo De Raman
Forgiveness has the ability to transform our thoughts.
— Asa Don Brown
When looking for the path to peace one comes to realize that peace is the path." Peace can only be achieved by letting go of the past and accepting what is. But one can only do that if he practices forgiveness. ~ UNIVERSE LOVES YOU & SO DO I ❤ #StardustAK ❤
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
a shift in thinking’ toward someone who has wronged you, ‘such that your desire to harm that person has decreased and your desire to do him good (or to benefit your relationship) has increased.’ Forgiveness, at a minimum, is a decision to let go of the desire for revenge and ill-will toward the person who wronged you. It may also include feelings of goodwill toward the other person. Forgiveness is also a natural resolution ofthe grief process, which is the necessary acknowledgment of pain and loss.
— Sonja Lyubomirsky
Forgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another.
— Asa Don Brown
Forgiveness is the ultimate liberator of our mind, body, and spirit.
— Asa Don Brown
Living in the past is a conscious or an unconscious choice made through a connection to the past.
— Asa Don Brown
I've thought of it ever since, the idea that we don't stray far, that what feels like discovery is only the revealing of what was hidden but there, waiting. I remember because I think this might be a path to forgiveness, to realize that no matter how violent, how frightening my mother was, it was not random but at least partly inescapable, that who she was had been set in motion long before and she had to suffer that person as much as I did.
— David Vann, Aquarium
When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.
— Ellis Peters, A Morbid Taste for Bones
Forgiveness is not a gift you give someone else, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
Absolution exists, call it Christian or whatever. It’s far older than any creed, and one of our blessings.
— Bruce Lee Bond, The Broken Coast
No second chances. It's not so much about morality, but about my inability to forgive. I am a champion grudge holder, and I don't think I could change this about myself even if I wanted to.
— Emily Giffin, Baby Proof
Her face crumpled and he felt her pain as if it were his own. He wanted to take it back, but just like that memory, it was always going to be there.	She worked to get control over her features, then said, “I’m sorry I didn’t defend you. I’m sorry I didn’t tell them you were my guest.”	Jem hadn’t thought he cared anymore, not really, but her words were tugging loose the hard, painful knot in his chest. “It’s okay.”	She shook her head. “It’s not. It wasn’t.”	He reached out and cupped her cheek in his hand. He didn’t know what else to say and all he wanted was to touch her skin, let her know that he wasn’t that boy anymore and that she wasn’t that girl.
— Mary Jane Hathaway, Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread
Her face crumpled and he felt her pain as if it was his own. He wanted to take it back, but just like that memory, it was always going to be there.	She worked to get control over her features, then said, “I’m sorry I didn’t defend you. I’m sorry I didn’t tell them you were my guest.”	Jem hadn’t thought he cared anymore, not really, but her words were tugging loose the hard, painful knot in his chest. “It’s okay.”	She shook her head. “It’s not. It wasn’t.”	He reached out and cupped her cheek in his hand. He didn’t know what else to say and all he wanted was to touch her skin, let her know that he wasn’t that boy anymore and that she wasn’t that girl.
— Mary Jane Hathaway, Persuasion, Captain Wentworth and Cracklin' Cornbread
A forgiven Christian is a forgiving Christian.
— Jim George
Two things I learned a long time ago, Cate: Don't hold a grudge longer than it takes to work your way through a pan of brownies all by yourself, and don't begrudge someone an apology if they deserve it.
— Alyssa Goodnight, Austensibly Ordinary
You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.
— Judy Blume, Forever . . .
None of us deserve God's forgiveness. The Bible says to forgive because God forgave us. It doesn't say anything about deserving it or even asking for it.
— Liz Tolsma, Remember the Lilies
Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you
— Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
We all have different paths. Sometimes we do not know why we gravitate towards one another, sometimes we do. As for myself, I put my everything into any relation and I love and give because that is who I am and am meant to do that, this is my path. In that, I am also human, and as humans, one cannot hold onto the divine, no matter how lovely, it cannot be owned, or kept and must be let go, all of it, people, love, attachment, expectations, no matter how we are received, treated, how we feel or how another feels or what they decide to do with their part of the bargain here because that is what every relation is, a bargain. All else leads to pain and suffering, On my end, I choose to learn and grow and can only hope the other person does too. I know when I am stepping into anything that it is not truly FOR me, yet I step, knowing there is a greater purpose. We all are learning tools, some of us know, some do not. Some relations are met only one way, some both ways, and in that, I do my best to let people and situations go, as they are meant, to be free, as we are all meant, in peace and I hope in my heart all of us live full beautiful lives. - Susan Marie
— Susan Marie
Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
In order to forgive an offender,we have first to forgive ourselves,then we can forgive them.In this way we are nothelpless victims anymore,we regain our power,acting from our peaceful placeof power.
— Human Angels, 365 Wisdom Pills
eRemember though, that happiness can never be achieved through the expectations levied on another; such a notion is not doomed to fail—but is just doomed! Happiness can never be achieved through the distress or destruction that one imposes on the other person. When a child, now grown-up, does not resolve their deep-seeded anger with a parent or parents, the “other person” plays Hell trying to make-up for it. Married, divorced or dead, the 'other person' can never replace what was lost so muchearlier in the life and soul of the oppressed. Forgiveness must be the course for any future, substantive relationships.
— H. Kirk Rainer, A Once and Always Father
Jesus came to save me from myself. He came to save me from self-effort. He didn't just die for my sin to give me forgiveness
—  he rose again to give me life.
Only through forgiving can we understand that there is nothing and no one to forgive. And that we too, if we have hurt someone, have been for them, nothing more than an instrument of Love in the same way they have been for us. In the Oneness there is no separation, no judgment, and everything happens in Divine Perfection.
— Human Angels, We are human angels
Maybe it's just easier to hold onto resentment and bitterness.But when you hold onto them, you're imprisoning yourself, not the other person. Not forgiving is pretty heavy baggage to carry around.
— Cathy Bryant, Miller's Creek Forgiveness Collection: Christian Romantic Suspense and Companion Bible Study
In the closing of this chapter, Lutzer describes the choice of forgiveness in more detail: 'Without both honesty andforgiveness, there can be no freedom from the fits of rage.'What happens through the years when such anger is left unattended or is unresolved (or forgiveness is not pursued)? Without forgiveness, does the anger dissipate or possibly fade away? I don’t think so; but instead, anger continues in one’s life and is carried into their adulthood. What kind or level of control can manifest (or grow) in this unresolved anger; and as for the person or carrier, what can be expected of their heart and soul?
— H. Kirk Rainer
But as you are surely aware, forgiveness doesn't mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again. Forgiveness means you've found a way forward that acknowledges harm done and hurt caused without letting either your anger or your pain rule your life or define your relationship with the one who did you wrong.
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
She had been so vulnerable, and Norah wanted only to protect her. But that vulnerability was tied to a massive mistake, a perception of herself too damaged to love. If Norah got anything from this book, it's that we're all damaged. The tragedy is letting it define you.
— Ellen Meister, Dorothy Parker Drank Here
Forgiveness is…an archaic perception of personal debt and guilt designed by the ego to trap us unendingly within itself.
— Peter Santos, Everything I Wanted To Know About Spirituality But Didn't Know How To Ask: A Spiritual Seekers Guidebook
To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack of self-respect.
— Human Angels
Sometimes it’s hard to know when to let go. It can be so personal…like the autumn leaf still hanging on the limb in the late October sky, Mother Nature sends a gust of wind to nudge it’s stem loose. For us we must listen for our own nudge from the inner soul. We must know…we will feel, it’s ok to let it be. *“Whispers words of wisdom let it be.” - Wes Adamson* “Let It Be” lyrics by Paul McCartney
— Wes Adamson
...frankly, many times, the people that we resent either have no idea about it or could care less.
— Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
Betrayals that make your soul scream so loud you wonder why no one else hears it. In the end, we are all alone in that private hell. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting the past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes. Yes, people disappoint us all the time. But the harshest lessons come when we disappoint ourselves. When we put our trust and our hearts into the hands of the wrong person and they do us wrong. And while we may hate them for what they did, the one we hate most is ourself for allowing them into our private circle. How could I have been so stupid? How could I let them deceive me?
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Lord teaches forgiveness, but some things are unforgivable.
— Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist
Lo, God! I am Thy handiwork. I have sinned and have done great evil, yet I am still Thy handiwork, who hath made me what I am. So, though I may not undo that which I have done, yet I may, with Thy aid, do better hereafter than I have done heretofore.
— Howard Pyle, The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions
In the past you have suppressed and denied the ego system. The ego has not been raised to awareness, but once you start to raise it to awareness and the stuff starts getting flushed up, there is a strong tendency to want to project. Even though the ego is now being unveiled, you are seeing that the mind is still very strongly invested in it and that is where the guilt comes in. The transcendence will eventually come where we are able to detach in our mind from those false thoughts, from the attack thoughts; we will be able to just calmly see the false as false. But that is one of the stages that we go through. Once it starts to get flushed up there is a real tendency to project – to be what Jesus calls the unhealed healer. You want to go around and give healing without having healed yourselves and it is just to watch as we do this, and go through it.
— David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God:  Experiencing A Course in Miracles
It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.
— Omar Musa, Here Come The Dogs
A life lived mired in resentment is one that is lived primarily in the past and this is never one that is filled with joy.
— Taite Adams
When you feel angry or frustrated at a brother for using a particular defense -- being controlling or whatever it is -- you are failing to forgive yourself for the very same attempt; you still believe that the defense has a reality. You are seeing it out there but when you start to pull it back to your mind, you start to see the control in yourself. The guilt from transferring it from one seeming person/body to another seeming person/body is enormous. Instead of blaming your brother, the blame gets turned onto your own seeming body, but it is still the same error. We have to see that I am mind; this identity that I took off of my brother but still saw in myself is also just a construct in my mind. Otherwise, what good is the transfer?
— David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God:  Experiencing A Course in Miracles
We are not obliged to like everyone, only to love and forgive everyone, sometimes from a distance.
— Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
Ego doesn't want us to be loving, forgiving and kind to each other or even to ourselves.
— Taite Adams, E-Go: Ego Distancing Through Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, and the Language of Love
Awakening involves mind training. Step back and pay attention to the thoughts that come into awareness. Feel your desire for healing. Preferences are judgments, and as the mind yields to the nonjudgmental Perspective of the Holy Spirit, the Awakening is obvious. Observe that as long as appetites seem to exist there are the ego defenses of indulgence and repression. Neither is better or worse than the other, for they are the same illusion. The miracle offers a real alternative and when one is consistently miracle-minded, defenses are no longer needed.
— David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God:  Experiencing A Course in Miracles
The Holy Spirit Asks that you accept the idea of one mind wholeheartedly, for this is the Correction to the error called ego. The ego was the belief in private minds with private thoughts, but if mind is one the ego has no foundation on which to stand. Forgiveness reflects the oneness that shines beyond perception. Forgiveness unifies and shows the world anew. You are not going insane, you are going inward to sanity of mind. And unified perception is the gateway to the remembrance of God and Christ.
— David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God:  Experiencing A Course in Miracles
During his time with the French army, years before, one of the sergeants had explained to the younger mercenaries the trick of falling asleep the night before a battle. "Make yourself comfortable, examine your conscience, and make a good Act of Contrition. Father Hugo says that in time of war, even if there is no priest to shrive you, your sins can be forgiven this way. Since you cannot commit sins while asleep--not even you, Simenon!--you will awake in a state of grace, ready to fall on the bastards. And with nothing to look forward to but victory or heaven-- how can you be afraid.
— Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
It seems like every day you have to deal with problems, interpersonal problems, survival, and so on and so forth. But you only have one problem and there is one solution to that problem. Isn’t that nice to think it is so simple? If there is such a thing as truth, it will be simple – one problem and one solution. If I perceive the problem to be in the world, it cannot be solved because the Holy Spirit is the one answer to that one problem and the Holy Spirit is in the mind. God did not place the answer where the problem was not. He did not place the answer out on the screen. He did not place the answer in the world; he placed the answer in the mind of the sleeping Son. And that is where the Holy Spirit is.
— David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God:  Experiencing A Course in Miracles
Forgive yourself, for anything and everything. This includes things you did as an adult and way back to things you have done since you were born. You can't change the past, so let it go and move on. You won't really have peace in general until you make peace with yourself. You need to generally like yourself and get along with yourself, because you will always be there. You can't get away from yourself. Wherever you go, there you are. :) So become your own friend, then you will have peace inside of yourself. God, the perfect and holy one, even gives you grace; so give yourself grace. You never have been and never will be perfect. So get over trying to be. Amen
— Lisa Bedrick, Life Stories
Forgiving other people does not mean that they will get away with what they did to you, it means that You are set free from the pain they have caused you. Forgiveness is the hardest lesson we are here to learn to master, but it is possible with time and patience.
— Jeanette Coron
The symbols and the gifts and the tools of Awakening are noticed everywhere once you have opened your heart to them. They are free and Freely Given. They come with blessings and with no cost or sacrifice. They come easily to a willing heart and open mind. Be not afraid of Love. Love comes as a Friend and the Holy Spirit is Friendly and Gentle.
— David Hoffmeister, Unwind Your Mind Back to God:  Experiencing A Course in Miracles
The whole message of the Course is: do not wait. In other words, salvation is offered to you this instant; be vigilant! Watch your mind. Be as attentive as you can this very instant. And the Course does not give specifics, like if this arises, do that. It is all based on sorting out the two thinking systems; the right mind and the wrong mind. That is where healing takes place. It draws attention away from symptoms level, whether it be financial problems, health issues or whatever.
— David Hoffmeister
Lets try to put last year's problems behind us and make what's bright now, for last year is not now.
— Auliq Ice
You're following the Lord wholeheartedly, yet you're missing out on the forgiveness part. God's not just in the business of saving us from our sins. He's also in the business of forgiving those sins and putting them as far as the east is from the west.
— Jody Hedlund, Love Unexpected
Sometimes the hardest thing is admitting you were wrong. It’s hard to say you need to be forgiven.
— Jane Casey
And we will mess up. We will hold on when we should have let go. We will walk away when we should have run. We will go when we should have stayed and we will hurt others when we should have loved. But God forgives, He forgets, and best of all, He restores.
— Kristen McNulty, Closed Doors
You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things.
— Neil Gaiman, The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains
Forgiveness is a revolving door positioned in your path.  You must step through it to move on, but it takes both timing and choice to escape walking circles inside.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
He doesn’t hurt us anymore.”Of course he doesn't hurt you anymore, I think. You're not defenseless anymore.
— Melanie O'Shea, Embers: A Memoir
We're on a planet. At the same time. In the Universe ... Let's do something Great Together!
— Jeff Byington, Zero and One
Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the heart what was done could be undone. What form would such atonement take that would turn back time and bring the dead to life? None. None possible, not in the real world. And yet in my imaginings I can clearly see this cleansed new creature steaming up out of myself like a proselyte rising drenched from the baptismal river amid glad cries.
— John Banville
Life experiences are but moments, you can let them pass or you can make them last.
— Atkinson Talvat
If you punish them, they are your slaves and if you forgive them they are your brothers.
— Auliq Ice
Trying to get stuff straight right at the end when you never cared all through your life. Trying to get into heaven on the affirmative action plan.
— Leonard Pitts Jr., Before I Forget
The essence of Christian faith has come to us in story form, the story of a God who will go to any lengths to get his family back. The Bible tells of flawed people -- people just like me -- who make shockingly bad choices and yet still find themselves pursued by God. As they receive grace and forgiveness, naturally they want to give it to others, and a thread of hope and transformation weaves its way throughout the Bible's accounts.
— Philip Yancey, Vanishing Grace: What Ever Happened to the Good News?
If you're brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories... there's no curse in the world that has any power over you.
— Natalie Lloyd
YOU MATTER- "if you forgive yourself then you can forgive others, if you control yourself then you can control others, if you understand yourself then you can understand others, if you love yourself then you can love others, if you respect yourself then you can respect others. Everything starts with only YOU. You Matter in your life.
— Sivaprakash Sidhu
The story of grace is the Gospel of not just forgiveness, but also of redemption. God uses the weak, the ones who have failed and the ones who had run out of second chances long ago.
— Kristen McNulty
Forgive me, Magnus.’‘I don’t know if I can.’‘You must.’Still looking into the distance, he said, ‘You need my forgiveness?’‘No. I’m dead. You can do nothing for me. You need to forgive me so you can live.
— Raymond E. Feist
He imagined forgiveness was like flying, that it made you soar. He imagined that it looked like an eagle, a silver bolt in the sky, that it was pure light.
— Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda
Let us never be deceived into thinking that the magnitude of our sin negates His grace, for grace just abounds all the more.
— Kathy Herman "Never Look Back"
I have been able to be kind and pleasant to him because every time I think of what happened in Erudite headquarters, I immediately push the thought aside. But that can't be forgiveness - if I had forgiven him, I would be able to think of what happened without that hated I can feel in my gut, right?Or maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and the anger, and the wrong is forgotten.
— Veronica Roth, Allegiant
The dreadful joy Thy Son has sentIs heavier than any care;We find, as Cain his punishment,Our pardon more than we can bear.
— G.K. Chesterton
But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.
— Michael Lee West, Crazy Ladies
So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn't forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you can't stand what you know. I resisted that reflex. That's my sole, solitary, lonely accomplishment.
— Jane Smiley
I dream of you every day. I make up scenarios where everything is forgiven, where everything is fixed. Deep down I know our situation is unfixable, and even worse - you don't want it. But I do. I want it so bad I look past your wrongdoings. I forgive you even though you never apologized. I'm just a fool. A fool made for your amusement. Forever yours.
— Denice Envall
Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity.
— Debasish Mridha
Fill your heart with kindness and forgiveness, there will be no stress, anger, or bitterness.
— Debasish Mridha
The best gift that we can give to our enemy is not war, but forgiveness and peace.
— Debasish Mridha
War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that.
— Debasish Mridha
It would seem that when we are sinned against, when someone else does us harm, we are in some way linked to that sin, connected to that mistreatment like a chain. And our anger, fear, or resentment doesn't free us at all. It just keeps us chained.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Unconditional love and forgiveness are the sources of eternal happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Always be kind. Every one needs it. Practice forgiveness.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is a state of awareness, which comes from tranquility, service, love, grace, and forgiveness.
— Debasish Mridha
Forgive other people before you ask for forgiveness… As you forgive, you will be forgiven.
— Choa Kok Sui, Experiencing Being - The Golden Lotus Sutras on Life
How could a woman who had an abortion not feel guilt or some sense of remorse? How could she justify what she'd done? Whom else could she blame when everyone was telling her it's her choice? Without facing the truth and confessing it, how could she be forgiven Who could she be restored? How could she be free?
— Francine Rivers, The Atonement Child
Love the sinner and hate the sin.
— Augustine of Hippo
Sometimes we learn the most about forgiveness when we realize how desperately we need it ourselves.
— Glad Munaiseche
Forgiveness is not death. It is life.
— Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns
Forgiveness is not the act of doing nothing to the one who hurts you. It's easy to do nothing, but hard to forgive.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Child, you do not forgive because the person who wronged deserves it. You misunderstood the point of forgiveness entirely. The only cage that a grudge creates is around the holder of the grudge. Forgiveness is not saying that the person who hurt you was right, or has earned it, or is allowed to hurt you again. All forgiveness means is that you will carry on without the burdens of rage or hatred.
— Merrie Haskell, The Castle Behind Thorns
In the classroom of hatred we learn pain, but love teaches us to forgive.
— Ogwo David Emenike
When you continue in anger, you throw away the keys to the door of your heart; others can't come in and you can't get out.
— Paul Bamikole
Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Jesus always seems to be pairing God's forgiveness of us with our forgiveness of others. But why? Growing up, I thought it was a way of guilting us into forgiving others, like Jesus was saying, Hey, I died for you and you can't even be nice to your little brother? As though God can get us to do the right thing if God can just make us feel bad about how much we owe God. But that is not the God I see in Jesus Christ. That is a manipulative mother.
— Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Forgive those who have made you suffer.
— Henri Charrière