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Paul tells us that, "The wages of sin is death." That's the bill. Our choice to sin has created a barrier between us and God, taken a toll on our relationship with Him that we can't fix, repair, or pay off on our own. Let's not minimize the situation. We've lived in offense to a holy, righteous God, who reigns in justice. We deserve death for what we've done. Like the Prodigal Son, we've robbed honor from our Father. We have scorned His provision and fled from His house. We have chosen wild living with strangers over a relationship with Him. Like the Prodigal Son, we've told God we'd be better off if He were dead. We've lived in ways that prove our distrust and disbelief in Him. We've chosen a path that leads to starvation and death, so that's what we deserve. Despite all of this, God offers us a brand-new inheritance -- one that has been reclaimed and redeemed by His Son, Jesus Christ, who came to earth and died for our sins. The bill was totaled up, and Christ died to settle that bill. After being crucified, He rose to life again, and He now beckons us home, having prepared a place for us. In the fullness of our sin, God responded with the fullness of His grace through Jesus Christ.
— Kyle Idleman
You you think you need to forgive someone...you got it all wrong.
— Vivian Amis
God loves you in spite of your mistakes
— Thea Harris, Pour the Oil
God can make you whole again. Past experiences may not disappear, but they don’t have the same effect on you.
— Thea Harris, Pour the Oil
I stand and feel an overpowering urge to forgive, because I realize that my father can't help himself, that he never could help himself, any more than he could understand himself.
— Andre Agassi
Forgiveness means that you are willing to give someone else a second chance to breathe in new life in his body. That is one of the greatest attribution of a Leader.
— Indy Bissessur
Grace, on the other hand, means that God is pursuing you. That God forgives you. That God sanctifies you. When you are apathetic toward God, He is never apathetic toward you. When you don’t desire to pray and talk to God, He never grows tired of talking to you. When you forget to read your Bible and listen to God, He is always listening to you. Grace means that your spirituality is upheld by God’s stubborn enjoyment of you.Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us (p. 76).
— Preston Sprinkle
When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Love is an endless act of forgiveness.
— Jan Karon
You're badly wounded.You're bleeding but not cut.You feel like dying but you're not.It’s a Love accident an emotional injury.You are not going to the hospital, aren't you?You don't need medicines and first aides, don't you?You just need to move on. Accept it, forgive and forget it.
— Bradley B. Dalina
One of the greatest lessons we can learn in life is how to keep mute when the boiling ring of anger is dropped within us
— Ikechukwu Izuakor
You need to understand something. Forgiveness isn’t an emotion. It’s an action, and it’s a choice. It’s the choice to not let the past affect how you feel about her.
— Elizabeth Finn, Unforgiven
I'm sorry. I behaved like a jerk.You did.Is that forgiveness?I'm not sure. I think it's an acknowledgment of imperfection. And an admission that I believe time is too short to hold a grudge.
— Janet Mullany, Hidden Paradise
Now one day, maybe I can forgive John Andersen for what he done to these trees, but I ain't gonna forget it. I figure forgiving is not letting something nag at you—rotting you out.
— Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
It turns out that there are many powers of the heart--among them intuition, intention, gratitude, forgiveness, resilience, and, of course, love.
— Baptist de Pape, The Power of the Heart: Finding Your True Purpose in Life
While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it’s just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to.
— Donna Lynn Hope
And when Jesus declared, 'It is finished,' He meant it. God’s punishment for our sin was paid for, permanently settled, finished— 100 percent. If you have responded in faith to God’s free pardon through Jesus, then God will never punish you for your sin. It’s finished. No more. If you screw up today or tomorrow (which you will), it’s already been paid for through Jesus. 'There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,' Paul said (Rom. 8: 1). None. God will not and cannot condemn you after He has already condemned Jesus for you. It’s impossible. God will never be angry with you since His anger was poured out on Jesus. All of it. One hundred percent.Charis: God's Scandalous Grace for Us (p. 169).
— Preston Sprinkle
Let go of all hate, love one another deeply.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The heart stays heavy if it remains in a state of unforgiveness.
— Aisha Mirza
Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. He told them, 'This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.'" -- Luke 24:45-47 NIV
— Anonymous
Guilt addresses an external action while shame attacks the internal character!" EL
— Evinda Lepins, A Cup of Grace for the Day: Coffee Hour with Chicklit Power
If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy.
— Unarine Ramaru
I've found that one of the most important things in life is to learn how to forgive yourself.
— Sai Marie Johnson
Deny yourself nothing in life.
— Jennifer Pierre, Traveling Souls
It is gracious to overlook and offence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Forgiveness in God's eyes is unconditional; no matter what you have done, you can receive forgiveness.
— E'yen A. Gardner, Extreme Makeover
Self-love is self liberation
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Don't let anger consume you if you're longing for true love.
— Janice Valencia Capulso
People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappoint them, or if they do, the owners manage to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me.
— Ann Patchett, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
It's too much to be forgiven when all you want is to be blamed.
— Non Pratt, Trouble
Shake hands with yourself. Forgive yourself and you can learn to love yourself and others in the manner that brings you the greatest fulfillment of all. With love, all things are truly possible. - Charmainism
— Charmaine Smith Ladd, Shake Hands with Yourself: A Peacemaker's Guide to Happiness & Inner Peace
Above everything else, beyond the long hardships, one out- come is the most invaluable. The sisterhoods. The lifelong friends and bonds that will never lessen. Years can go by, and I will pick up with each of those sisters as if a single day hasn’t passed. Only we can truly understand one another; not even our husbands can fully grasp what we’ve been through with each other and how ironclad those bonds are.
— Angela Ricketts, No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife
Dear church, John the baptist died for exposing the sins of others. Jesus died to actually pay for the sins of others.John was great, but we should not follow his model. Our model is Christ. So lets stop telling the world how bad their sin is and lets start sharing how good the Father has always been.
— Carlos A.  Rodriguez
Because of the Resurrection, our natural reaction must be to get past our emotional reactions as quickly as possible and reflect on what happened in light of the cross and the resurrection and our own baptisms into that defining reality – to the life-giving and life-affirming waters of forgiveness and reconciliation.
— Megan McKenna, And Morning Came: Scriptures of the Resurrection
If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty
— German Proverb
There is no need returning anger to those who made your past horrible, do not think of making them feel bitter, maybe a help from you can just make them ashame and miserable, and can probably change their attitude.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy.
— Raheel Farooq
Keep dreaming,Keep hoping,Keep lovingKeep giving,keep motivating,Keep forgiving,Keep praying,Keep tithing,Keep sharing your testimony.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I forgive you, only if you promise to be happy in whatever you do.
— X H
Forgiving others simply means that you refuse to be a prisoner of a past that you can't change, and shackled to decisions that you didn't make.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Even if you feel wronged, respond right.
— Carlos A.  Rodriguez
Jesus is not a religious leader
—  He is a Savior. You can enjoy His extravagant love even right after you fall into your extravagant sin.
Intentionally or involuntarily, your earthly and spiritual fathers will lead you the perfect Father. You might not recognize it, but even when they fail, they create the perfect scenario for you to run into your Heavenly Daddy’s arms. When they reject you, He will receive you. When they fail at meeting you, He will open up His schedule. When they miscommunicate with you, He will share His heart of love for you and, His heart of love for them.
— Carlos A.  Rodriguez, Designed For Inheritance: A Discovery of Sonship
You’ve been tested.’ He advised me to try and ‘forgive and pardon, and this way seek to become beloved by God’ without my forgiveness being tied to the one who wronged me. ‘This is the Divine remedy,’ he emphasised, ‘remind your ego when it resists. Don’t you love for God to forgive you on the day, too?’ Reflecting on what the Shaykh said, his advice undid a knot in my heart and I resolved to work on my forgiveness purely for the sake of God. The Shaykh also recommended: ‘Be careful about what you pray for in the future.’ He promised to pray for me personally, asking God to send me a Muslim husband who would value and cherish me for who I am. Insha’ Allah!
— Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.
— Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
To forgive is the vocation of all Christians.
— Matthew C. Harrison, Christ Have Mercy: How to Put Your Faith in Action
I came to England weak in body, and, in consequence of much study, as I suppose, I was taken ill on May 15, and was soon, at least in my own estimation, apparently beyond recovery. The weaker I became in body, the happier I was in spirit. Never in my whole life had I seen myself so vile, so guilty, so altogether what I ought not to have been, as at this time. It was as if every sin of which I had been guilty was brought to my remembrance; but at the same time I could realize that all my sins were completely forgiven—that I was washed and made clean, completely clean, in the blood of Jesus. The result of this was great peace. I longed exceedingly to depart and be with Christ. When my medical attendant came to see me, my prayer was something like this: “Lord, Thou knowest that he does not know what is for my real welfare, therefore do Thou direct him.” When I took my medicine, my hearty prayer each time was something like this: “Lord, Thou knowest that this medicine is in itself nothing, no more than as if I were to take a little water. Now please, O Lord, to let it produce the effect which is for my real welfare, and for Thy glory. Let me either be taken soon to Thyself, or let me be soon restored; let me be ill for a longer time, and then taken to Thyself, or let me be ill for a longer time, and then restored. O Lord, do with me as seemeth Thee best!
— George Müller, Autobiography of George Müller: A million and a half answers to prayer
Bad peoples often hunts past un-resolve haunted projection in other people's life and great peoples forgives haunted instinct nature of bad peoples let go and save the society but this war cycle will never ends. Human forgiveness will have limit.
— Atif Iqbal Khan
Forgiveness is local.
— Matthew C. Harrison, Christ Have Mercy: How to Put Your Faith in Action
There is no sin that Jesus cannot forgive.
— Jim George
People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat. What they don’t understand is hatred can’t be isolated or turned off. It manifests in their health, choices and belief systems. Their values and religious beliefs make adjustments to justify their negative emotions. Not unlike malware infesting a hard drive, their spirit slowly becomes corrupted and they make choices that don’t make logical sense to others. Hatred left unaddressed will crash a person’s spirit. The only thing he or she can do is to reboot, by fixing him or herself, not others. This might require installing a firewall of boundaries or parental controls on their emotions. Regardless of the approach, we are all connected on this "network of life" and each of us is responsible for cleaning up our spiritual registry.
— Shannon L. Alder
... forgiveness is a four letter word: Love.
— Elizabeth Marx, Binding Arbitration
Matthew held out his hands. “Pax,” he said, wheedlingly. “Let it be peace between us. You can pour the rest of the port on my head.”James’ mouth curved up into a smile. It was impossible to stay angry with Matthew. It was almost impossible to get angry at Matthew.
— Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold
A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
To live a wonderful life create more, buy less, hug more, scold less, give more, take less, forgive more, worry less and be grateful everyday for life.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I've never bowed to anyone, but will gladly live the rest of my life on my knees before you, if you'll be mine.
— Joya Ryan, Break Me Slowly
One of my greatest lessons of growth was to stop dwelling in the past and forgive myself and others from all the pain and hurt that was caused. When I finally let go and released, I was free with glee.
— Jason Micheal Ratliff
What I've learned over the years is that people shouldn't be defined by a single mistake. Everyone messes up," she said. "You have to forgive yourself and move one.
— Gena Showalter, Beauty Awakened
To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I'm not sure if the question's rhetorical or if she thinks I have a clue to her metaphysical mystery. And I'm in no state to answer either way because I'm crying. I don't realize it till I taste the sale against my lips. I can't remember the last time I've cried but, once I accept the mortification of sniveling like a baby, the floodgates open and I'm sobbing now, in front of Mia. In front of the whole damn world.
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
Forgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don't forgive, you are the one who suffers.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Forgiveness is another way of saying, "I need to mind my own business.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We all reek of weariness. A room full of the black-soul phenomenon. All of a sudden I don’t feel so alone in the recognition of my own mixed feelings mirrored in those faces. In those faces, I see that the seemingly repugnant behavior wasn’t so atrocious after all. Everything is forgiv- able. Everything we said and did and felt was magnified by the pres- ence of something we couldn’t control, and that fact definitely brought out the crazy. Each of us will carry a balance of regret and pride for the rest of our lives.
— Angela Ricketts, No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife
Forgiveness is a virtue of beauty. You learn to see a person no longer defined by a past but one that has re-created itself anew.
— Jason Micheal Ratliff
Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you reach out to those you need to forgive, it is you that will be touched and healed.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job
— Laura Dave, The Divorce Party
I think forgiveness is a missing key to corporate success.
— -Shandel Slaten
We will find it increasingly difficult to believe that we've been set free from sin, from the law's power to condemn, and that God's smile is resting upon us if we continually give ourselves over to what we know we should avoid. Sin strips our faith, and it leads to ultimate deadness in our lives.
— Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Comforts from Romans: Celebrating the Gospel One Day at a Time
And that you seek forgiveness of your Lord, and then turn to Him. He will provide for you a goodly provision until an appointed term. And He will grant His grace to every one possessed of merit. And if you turn away, then surely, I fear for you the punishment of a dreadful day.
— Anonymous The Quran
The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Forgiveness can help you to be sane.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If we choose to hold onto the past and cling to hurt, anger, or whatever, He can't set us free of it. He won't take those things by force.
— Dawn M. Turner, Defender
Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.
— Emily Thorne
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.
— Corrie ten Boom
Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness. A full pardon from suspicion and accountability. It's the liberation of a stolen future. A future my father never lived to see. Absolution is a mercy the people who killed him will never know.
— Emily Thorne
Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.
— Maggie Cox, Bought: For His Convenience or Pleasure?
The human is the only animal on earth that pays a thousand times for the same mistake. The rest of the animals pay only once for every mistake they make. But not us. We have a powerful memory. We make a mistake, we judge ourselves, we find ourselves guilty, and we punish ourselves.
— Miguel Ruiz
All hatred is self-hatred, just as all healing is self-healing.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
When I was a little girl my understanding of revenge was as simple as the Sunday school proverbs it hid behind. Neat little morality slogans like, do un to others and two wrongs don't make a right. But two wrongs can never make a right because; two wrongs can never equal each other. For the truly wronged real satisfaction can only be found in one of two places, absolute forgiveness or mortal vindication. This is not a story about forgiveness.
— Emily Thorne
Remember that many "negative" people were conditioned by people with smaller minds and hearts, so forgive them.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
It is a difficult thing―if not impossible―to forgive oneself for foolish errors, not for trampling a life or goring another with sharp horns, but for being the fool who opened the gate and let the bull out, blind to potential consequences.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
You can be happy if you are willing to let go of your past and leave yourself unencumbered so you can fly freely.
— Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness
Forgiveness doesn’t excuse their behaviour. It prevents their behaviour from destroying your heart.
— Hemant Smarty
Forgiveness is one of the keys to moving forward because if you don't forgive, you are stuck in the past.
— Terraine Francois
Do not wallow in your mistakes. Do not grovel and prostrate yourself in hopes of forgiveness. We all make mistakes. Apologize and move forward. Do not replay the event in your head. Do not continue to beat yourself up. Do not profusely explain, defend yourself, make excuses or blame. After you apologize, do no more explaining; never explain more than once — ever.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.
— Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
I'm sorry Penelope." "Don't waste my time with sorries,Simon.If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other's toes,we'll never have time to be friends.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
If you haven’t figured it out by now, the words grace, love, and forgiveness are nearly synonymous.
— Kurt W. Bubna, Epic Grace: Chronicles of a Recovering Idiot
Revenge is a bad policy if you gain nothing out of it, but under the same circumstances, forgiveness is even a worse one.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Often we can't reach what is in front of us until we let go what is behind. Don't let your struggle become your identity.
— Chris Vonada
Know how you want to be treated, and expect that when you deal with people. Also remember to give people the respect that you want.
— Terraine Francois
There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Someone's forgiveness will not heal you; condemnation or absolution is their test, not yours.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Forgive for yourself and for the peace it will bring to your pain.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.
— Shannon L. Alder
She was busy thinking about the concept of forgiveness. It was such a lovely, generous idea when it wasn't linked to something awful that needed forgiving.
— Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot
I will look at the past, but I will not stare at it.
— M. Spio, A Song for Carmine
Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.
— Ashly Lorenzana
So maybe that’s what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.
— Wally Lamb, We Are Water
Dogs are special that way—you can ignore them or yell at them, they always forgive you. —Madison
— Pam Torres, It's NOT Just A Dog!
Forgiveness is the virtue of the courageous, the response of the forgiven, the mercy of the just.
— Ron Brackin, Forgive Your Way to Better Health, Greater Productivity, and World Peace
It's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...if we continue to trip on what is behind.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
A grudge is like a cesspool
—  forgiveness like a flowing river.
When you deeply and completely love yourself, you find there is nothing to forgive because everyone and everything has contributed to who you are now.
— Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
— Catherine the Great
Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.
— Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember
Forgiveness is not about letting anybody 'off the hook.' Forgiveness actually has nothing to do with the person you are forgiving. It does, however, have everything to do with you.
— Mario J. Rocchetta, Make It Happen
Beloved, it's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...if we continue to trip on what is behind.
— Jason Versey
. . . we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Never waste time holding grudges for people who have wronged you.Time waits for no one.Apologise when you are wrong,Express your love when you should,Forgive the ones who wronged you,And appreciate the one who makes efforts to see you smile.
— Nomthandazo Tsembeni
But she stopped herself. That wouldn't make it right. You didn't forgive because it was the only choice you thought you had. That didn't make it forgiveness, that made it desperation. She'd always been too desperate about Jake. Always.
— Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
Oh, I was but a wounded BeastOh, I was but a wounded BeastTeeth gnashing from a brutal feastWolfing down with others; consuming every biteEating every poison laid before my sightI dined upon Iniquity’s endless shelfBlindly feeding, greedily…on myselfOh, I was but a wounded BeastExpiring with every taste of yeastBelly puffed and sour with deathA haunting shutter with every breathFull of nothing but vanityDipped in pleasure and tragedy Oh, I was but a wounded BeastAs the West is far from the EastI charted the lust of mine own eyesThus, in my folly…I was sure to dieMy soul knew nothing of sacrificeInstead I danced with every viceOh, I was but a wounded BeastYou found me broken and utterly fleecedNaked, abandoned and truly aloneYou nurtured the wounds to which you sewnYou gave me bread, You sang me a songAnd touched my wounds with a loving balm Oh, I was but a wounded BeastYet, You taught me wisdom’s leashSo I walk with you…dawn through nightQuenched by your fount of love and lightNo darkness, no hate not a selfish boneCan feed this fiend that You’ve atonedOh, I was, but a wounded Beast! ~Jason Neville Versey
— Jason Versey
Beloved,it's impossible to sprint into the providential arms of what is ahead...if we continue to trip on what is behind.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
At times life orchestrates a very efficent, yet rather painful, modality to allow us to release grievances and judgements towards some people. It consists in slowly setting the stage for us to be in the same circumstances, which eventually lead us to behave exactly like those people.Each time we express hard judgments regarding what is wrong with others, a complex and long series of events is activated till we reach the moment when we can see our own finger pointing against us.There is also another way, the most efficent and painless, which does not require any complexity and long orchestration, for it simply takes place in the present. It consists in abstaining right from the beginning from any judgement towards others.
— Franco Santoro
The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.
— Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
You forgive me coz you are great
—  I'm too bad coz I still love you.
It is we humans that need to forgive others and ourselves for all wrongs, no matter what they may be. Only by forgiveness can we move higher up in our ascension and see in truth, there was never really anything there that needed forgiving
— Timothy Moran, The Twelve Messages of the Spiritual Heart: A Novel of Transformation
If you want to master your past at some point in time you’ll have to learn forgiveness.
— Chris Vonada
Overcome evil with good and hate with love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
— Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
When you forgive somebody, it’s not so much for them as it is for you. You need to be free from that. And you need to rise above that.
— Lacey Sturm
We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven but because we love ourselves so much we don't want to keep paying for the injustice...when someone can touch a wound and it no longer hurts you then you know you have truly forgiven.
— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.
— Chris Bohjalian, Skeletons at the Feast
Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.
— Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
A mistake does not make a shadow. The people who you hurt through the mistake and what they decide to say about it is what leaves a shadow. The only way to erase that shadow is to shed light on it. If that is not possible, moving on to somewhere brighter is always an option.
— Justin David Nevins
Everything that has ever been beautiful has been burned. Like you.
— Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
...lose your mind so that you can gain a new way of knowing.
— Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
When you forgive yourself, you free yourself from memories which aren’t serving you anymore.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
The moment after being let go, when we can finally let it go, is the moment when love once again has hope.
— Brian MacLearn
But I was learning forgiveness didn’t have to be about granting absolution for sins but being able to find freedom from pain.
— Heather Topham Wood, Falling for Autumn
We want Allah to forgive us, yet we are not willing to forgive others.Desire the same that you wish for your enemy,Pray for those who harmed you with the same passion that you pray for yourself.Be willing to open heaven’s door for your enemy.The greatest compassion lies in forgiveness.
— Zarina Bibi
....life is the work of the spirit trying to have a human experience.
— Holly Lynn Payne
We had a dream that we would always be best friends. When we were born, for some it was the end. Now it seems there may not be tomorrow. But despite the horror and the sorrow, I love our world. I want us all to live. Now Rosa, you've asked me to forgive. One day, if mom survives this bitter night, then we shall meet again, and I will say, I loved you Rosa. Don't you see? But we are different, you dream of everlasting love. Not me. Because what really matters is to live. And if we do, there will be nothing to forgive. But I'll forgive you anyway.
— Ginger and Rosa
Forgiveness is knowing and remembering what happened, but choosing to move beyond it.
— Ashley Ormon
Their lips were too thin to ask forgiveness, and their minds too mean to understand love.
— Jane Yolen
Forgiveness is capital 'L' Love in action. Until you have to forgive someone, you haven't loved. You just think you have. Until somebody forgives you, you don't know humility. [p342, 1st paperback edition]
— Rea Nolan Martin, Mystic Tea
But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped
This is the difference time createsWe bleed our misbehaviorAnd in silent prayer, repentIt is only necessary that we fall away againInto love
— Michele L. Rivera, With a Purpose
True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways.
— Richard Rohr, Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation
...purification was the point of such pain.
— Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
You've had so much strife but you're always happy. How do you do it? " "I choose to," he said. "I can leave myself to rot in the past, spend my time hating people for what happened...or I can forgive and forget... You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.
— M.L. Stedman
God is love—He is gracious and forgives.
— Jim George
I am betrayed and played but right now im feeling nothing pain but to forgive, it's because I love God too much that I can't hate.
— AKA
A sinner’s humanity will cause him to fall from grace again and again, but his human pride, ego, or feeling of unworthiness should not prevent him from seeking God’s forgiveness again and again.
— Joyce L. Villeneuve, Finding Forgiveness in God's Word: A journey of hope and redemption
Whether we, admit it or not ,but forgiveness is one of the special attributes and qualities of our creator. we cannot forgive and forget anything, incident or matter ,even if we try hard , still some stale memories keep on hurting like pieces of broken glass or sand particles.
— AISHA RAHEEL
Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.
— Shannon L. Alder
What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything.
— Holly Lynn Payne, DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi
At some point, you have to set down the past. At some point, you have to accept that everyone was doing their best. At some point, you have to gather yourself up, and go onward into your life.
— Olivia Laing, The Trip to Echo Spring
Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is - a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue. No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I’ll be rewarded for it in heaven. My reward is here and now. It’s knowing that I try to do the right thing. That I lived a good life. And that’s where spirituality really lost its way. When it became a stick to beat people with. ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.’ You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
— Ricky Gervais
And if you say 'I love you,' and you mean it, then love makes up for a whole lifetime of mistakes. That's some kind of magic.
— Natalie Lloyd, A Snicker of Magic
In my anger, I slew you twice. I saw you only as the dragon, and I forgot what you were meant to be. Can you forgive me?"--Etanun
— Anne Elisabeth Stengl, Dragonwitch
Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.
— Tim Fargo
Apologizing is different from begging, it doesn't change your status, go ahead and get on your knees, spill tears if you got it, for the person you offended, if at all you had a place in their hearts, you'll be totally forgiven and accepted.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.
— Lois Lowry, A Summer to Die
The Lord's capacity to forgive a person who is truly repentant is without limit, without qualification
— Elizabeth Camden, The Lady of Bolton Hill
Forgiveness is required to dissolve all the negative energy cords because it releases shame, guilt, anger, hatred, etc.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
This is, perhaps, the greatest challenge of our time – to love in the absence of any immediate rewards for our love.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
How Many Marriages Would Be Better If the Husband and the Wife Clearly Understood That They're On the Same Side?
— Zig Ziglar, Great Quotes from Zig Ziglar: 250 Inspiring Quotes from the Master Motivator and Friends
You are much more than your mistakes, much bigger than your failures and much more beautiful than your ugliest moment. The stumbles we experience in life may shame us or humble us with valuable tough lessons but they will never define who we truly are. No matter your mistake…it’s important to remember that You are someone’s light in the darkness; a beacon of love and hope and that should ALWAYS supersede the superficial imperfections we erroneously internalize. ~Jason Versey
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
The gentle waters poured from the heavens, baptizing the two angels in a healing shower that washed away their differences, lifting the veil from their sight, and they knew they were the same.
— C.J. Sullivan, Wings of the Divided
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
— Jason Versey
The more I prayed, the more aware I became that, in order to receive God's true blessing, my heart had to be ready to receive His love. But how could He enter my heart when it was holding so much anger and hatred?
— Immaculée Ilibagiza, Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide
I said the Lord's Prayer hundreds of times, hoping to forgive the killers who were murdering all around me. It was no use-every time I got to the part asking God to "forgive those who trespass against us," my mouth went dry. I couldn't say the words because I didn't truly embrace the feeling behind them. My inability to forgive caused me even greater pain than the anguish I felt in being separated from my family, and it was worse than the physical torment of being constantly hunted.
— Immaculée Ilibagiza, Led by Faith: Rising from the Ashes of the Rwandan Genocide
So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry. I know you loved her. It was hard not to.Takumi
— John Green
Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored.
— Erik Bundy, Magic and Murder Among the Dwarves
Grin is still beside me. His arms are hung tightly as his side and I take his hand. It is like touching stone and he turns stiffly toward me as we begin making our way back to where Rosso had camped the horses. We are both quiet but I know we were both thinking the same thing. That we wish we were out there and that we wish this wasn't happening at the same time. I suddenly feel the need to apologize to him too. It is because of me that his father and brothers are in this situation but that was their choice. When he looks at me, I can see forgiveness in his eyes. Neither of us have to speak to understand and neither of us look back at the people we leave behind.
— Celia McMahon, Skye
Where you see and feel wrongdoing, Divine Mind sees opportunity to restore Wholeness.
— Deborah Atianne Wilson, It's Ok to Be Spiritual and Wealthy: 19 Essential Keys for Living a Joyful, Prosperous & Abundant Life
I don’t want God's forgiveness. And He’s not getting mine.~Harry Silver
— Janet Sketchley, Heaven's Prey
She would not allow herself to remember how Note had treated her, and many others too, she suspected. She had forgiven him, yes, but she still did not like to remember. And perhaps a deliberate act of forgetting went along with forgiveness. You forgave, and then you said to yourself: Now I shall forget. Because if you did not forget, then your forgiveness would be tested, perhaps many times and in ways that you could not resist, and you might go back to anger, and to hating.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon
Are we bombs or balms? Let’s face it. Any time of year can bring happiness or hardships. Financial stress, marital/relational strife, and extended family dysfunction can all be compounding pressures that can make our tempers react and explode like a bomb. When we respond in this fashion it dramatically intensifies these already difficult situations and creates massive emotional destruction with the collateral damage always being the ones we say we love. It destroys, maims, and kills our relationships. Blowing up is often a selfish, immature response to our stresses and should always be avoided. James 1:19-20 says “My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.” Therefore, instead I encourage us all to be more like balms. A balm is like a gentle word that protects and soothes an already irritated situation with understanding and forgiveness. It provides relief and healing when applied generously. When we lay ourselves down like a balm of love we give our families a tender calming cover from the worries of this world and that’s the greatest gift we can offer them…anytime of the year. ~Jason Versey
— Jason Versey
Sin builds up. Forgiveness cleans up.
— Todd Stocker
Obedience, forgiveness, and devotion are in the blood of every victim.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.
— Shannon L. Alder
Forgiveness. The ability to forgive oneself. Stop here for a few breaths and think about this because it is the key to making art, and very possibly the key to finding any semblance of happiness in life. Every time I have set out to translate the book (or story, or hopelessly long essay) that exists in such brilliant detail on the big screen of my limbic system onto a piece of paper (which, let’s face it, was once a towering tree crowned with leaves and a home to birds). I grieve for my own lack of talent and intelligence. Every. Single. Time. Were I smarter, more gifted, I could pin down a closer facsimile of the wonders I see. I believe, more than anything, that this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can’t write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.
— Ann Patchett, This is the Story of a Happy Marriage
Once you decide to forgive, you initiate the healing process. Forgiveness gives your soul permission to move on to the higher and healthier ground of emotional recovery. Forgiveness is to your soul what antibiotics are to infection. It is the curative agent that will help to fully restore your soul. It doesn't immediately remove the pain of defense but it does start you on the road to recovery.
— Will Davis Jr., 10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them
Forgiveness is a clean lotion that heals the wounds of misunderstandings! To iron out the differences
—  get the painful sores dressed up
I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness and sharp edges and broken, but He is good and pure and whole, all that I strive for but am not. I wake up every morning and I sit in silence and I choose to believe. I may speak. I may not. I let Him wrap up all my broken in to His grace. He takes me imperfect. This is the great mystery I never knew.
— Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
Pride and entitlement always go with unforgiveness. The longer you hold someone's offense over them, the more likely you are to start feeling arrogant and entitled to your posture toward him.
— Will Davis Jr., 10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them
Never forget that when connections get destroyed by means of bad communication, it's good communication that resolves them. Don't be shy to say "I am sorry" and "please forgive me". That's a good communication!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Why is it so important for me to forgive that son-of-a-bitch? I’m not the one at fault here. It shouldn’t be about me. He’s the one that did wrong. Screw his feelings. He should feel like he’s hated for what he did.” Lisa added another used tissue to the growing pile on the table.Lyn warmly smiled. “Forgiving Byron isn’t for his sake, it’s for yours. The block in your life’s road can only be removed if you forgive him for what he did. If you don’t, you’ll just keep bumping into that block again and again. The life you live will be miserable. You’ll never be able to break the chains of the past.”Lisa listened and let the words sink into her subconscious. She realized the only way to get to the end of the road was to take the first step. There was a block preventing her from moving forward in life. She had to find a way past it.
— Dane Hatchell, Resurrection X
Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
You forgive what you can, when you can. That's all you can do.To forgive does not mean overlooking the offense and pretending it never happened. Forgiveness means releasing our rage and our need to retaliate, no longer dwelling on the offense, the offender, and the suffering, and rising to a higher love. It is an act of letting go so that we ourselves can go on.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
... that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we have to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
We would be in each other's lives again. No, he hadn't been the best father, but he was my father, and we loved each other. We needed each other. Though he'd disappointed me countless times through the years, life had already proven too short for me to hold on to that. So I let go of my hurt. I let go years of frustration between us. Most of all, I let go of any desire to change my father and I accepted him for who he was. I took all of my anguish and released it like a fistful of helium balloons to the sky, and I chose to forgive him.
— Liz Murray, Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive.
— Tim Relf, Stag
Forgiveness: It’s not because they deserve it
—  it’s because you do. Sometimes forgiveness is about loving yourself enough to move on.
Better to be blinded by love than hate
—  one forgives and the other refuses.
If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
— Robert Frost
Your number one task here is forgiving yourself and the people who mistreat you. You must learn to do this if you want to experience real happiness and peace in this life. You must do this if you want to feel accepted, valued and safe. The only way to feel innocent and worthy – is to give it to other people. That is just how it works.
— Kimberly Giles, Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness
The one who never repents shall be the one who never sleeps.
— Charles   Lee, The Way To Dawn: Ascension Zero
Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt.
— Will Davis Jr., 10 Things Jesus Never Said: And Why You Should Stop Believing Them
A lie has forgiveness. A deceive doesn't. The difference is in lying to protect and deceiving to harm.
— Eulália Marques
You cannot do more than you can, so be gentle with yourself and quick to forgive your mistakes and to move on.
— Toni Sorenson
I may not give you the forgiveness you're asking, but i'm giving you forever to make me forgive you.
— JCrov