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What happens when you give people a 2nd chance? They blame you for it. What happens when you give people a 3rd chance? They ridicule you. What happens when you give them a 4th chance? They make sure they will have a 5th. What happens when you give them a 5th? They blame you for everything and laugh at you. What happens when you give them a 6th? At this point, they try to kill you by accident before you even have another chance of leaving them. What happens when you give them a 7th chance? They punish you for all the chances you have given them before and betray you in the most horrible way they can, proving that they didn’t deserve not even one chance at anything. Forgiveness is not for everyone, and those that deserve it never reach the point of even needing it.
— Robin Sacredfire
He nods, looking through the pictures on the screen on the back of his camera. Some relationships can only exist as memories. But unlike ephemeral digital images that can be sorted and deleted, we can’t erase the past. We have to learn to live with all the images that are stored in love's archive, memories tagged good and bad. No Photoshopping. Accept the negative before moving forward.
— Shannon  Mullen, See What Flowers
The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell (Rom. 8:33).
— Thomas Watson, The Godly Man's Picture
By seizing every opportunity for kindness, forgiveness, healing, and love that crosses my path each day, I hope that my death, although perhaps sad for some, will be gracefully concluded.
— Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
The only reason I asked is because, in terms of learning how to forgive someone, I’ve been where you’re headed. Don’t let her win; don’t let this eat away at you until there’s nothing left.
— Valenciya Lyons, Life After Natalie
I entered the picture in the eleventh hour as a guide to the exit of his life. I navigated as best I could the role of end-of-life shepherd—a journey that I had never taken before. I have to forgive myself for what I did not know. And I have to forgive him for the times that he felt unequipped to deal with the unknown.
— Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
I believe one of the most important reasons I am here today is to practice forgiveness and to learn the power of it as a gift to others and myself. By focusing on forgiveness in my life today, I am promoting my healing and lessening my regrets.
— Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
The shift from thinking that I must feel forgiveness to the practice of repetitive giving forgiveness has helped me in my healing journey.
— Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
If I wanted, I could come up with reasons to be angry with everyone I know; there are sins of commission or omission I could hang on every last person in my life… The truth is, I will never run out of people to indict. We are all guilty of so many failures to love well that if I wanted--and sometimes I do want--I could find some fault or transgression in everyone I know that I could then use to justify writing them off. I could blaze that trail to hell if I wanted to, and just the thought of it scares me off
— Russ Ramsey, Struck: One Christian's Reflections on Encountering Death
Embrace YOU...Believe in yourself, in this very moment...forgive yourself for all mistakes and 'bad' decisions you may have made in the past. Do not allow others opinions or judgements of who you were yesterday or decades ago define who you are today. Each and every day opens new doors for miracles of healing to occur in our lives. Embrace these miracles, big or small, even those you may presently be unaware of. Live in this moment, for this is all we have. Give thanks to your Higher Power for all that you are, for the very breath that allows life, love, and abundance to flow to you and through you forever more. Live in the Light of All That IS.﻿
— Angie karan
Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.
— M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
This is the way it ought to be, he thought to himself, to be able to dance with a girl you like and really get a kick out of it because everything’ on an even keel and one’s worries are of the usual ones of unpaid bills and sickness in the family and being late to work too often. Wh can’t it be that way for me? Nobody’s looking twice at us. Nobody’s asking me where I was during the war or what the hell I am doing back on the coast. There’s no trouble to be had without looking for it. Everything’s the same, just as it used to be. No bad feelings except for those that have always been and probably always will. It’s a matter of attitude. Mine needs changing. I’ve got to love the world the way I used to. I’ve got to love it and the people so I’ll feel good, and feeling good will make life worthwhile. There’s no point in crying about what’s done. There’s a place for me and Emi and Freddie here on the dance floor and out there in the hustle of things if we’ll let it be that way. I’ve been fighting it and hating it and letting my bitterness against myself and Ma and Pa and even Taro throw the whole universe out of perspective. I want only to go on living and be happy. I’ve only to let myself do so.
— John Okada, No-No Boy
To forgive is a solemn tussle between love and hate
— Ymatruz
Forgiveness is a process, an admittedly difficult one that often can feel like a rigorous spiritual practice.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive—and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
You must also forgive yourself. You must forgive yourself for any past mistakes and failures that you cannot forget.
— Laura Aranda, Pushing Back the Darkness
Forgive everyone for everything, and sleep with a clean heart!Good Night Universe!
— Napz Cherub Pellazo
There would be no grand absolution, only forgiveness meter out in these precious sips. I would well up from Hugh's heart in spoonfuls, and he would feed it to me. And it would be enough.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Mermaid Chair
Forgiveness is the ocean that already surrounds us when we launch our prayers of repentance to God. We do not manufacture the ocean by our repentance
—  we sail in the peace its boundless waters provide.
Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
MEDITATION ON THE BUS. Rainy and cold. Thinking gloomily of the sins and shortcomings of others, it suddenly came to me to remember my own offenses, just as heinous as those of others. If I concern myself with my own sins and lament them, if I remember my own failures and lapses, I will not be resentful of others. This was most cheering and lifted the load of gloom from my mind. It makes one unhappy to judge people and happy to love them.
— Dorothy Day, The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus
You are following Jesus and shaping our world in the power of the Spirit. And when the final consummation comes, the work that you have done - whether in Bible study or biochemistry, whether in preaching or in pure mathematics, whether in digging ditches or in composing symphonies - will stand, will last.The fact that we live between, so to speak, the beginning of the End and the end of the End, should enable us to come to terms with our vocation to be for the world that Jesus was for Israel, and in the power of the Spirit to forgive and retain sins.
— N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Easter
Do not carry the burden of self-judgment. You are forgiven and pardoned
— Sunday Adelaja
...a guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul. Therefore, an age without a sense of sin, in which people are not even sorry for not being sorry for their sins, is in a serious predicament. Likewise an age with a Christianity so eager to forgive that it denies the need for forgiveness. For such an age, therefore, Lent can scarcely be too long!
— Edna Hatlestad Hong, The Downward Ascent
He's come a long way, but he's still never accepted that he's forgiven.
— Mary Jane Hathaway, These Sheltering Walls
Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.
— Joyce Rachelle
I let my anger consume me.”“It’s understandable,” she said.“It may be understandable,” replied Pug, “but it is no more forgivable for being understandable.
— Raymond E. Feist, Shards of a Broken Crown
You never know what's going to happen in life.
— Therese Crutcher-Marin, Watching Their Dance: Three Sisters, a Genetic Disease and Marrying into a Family At Risk for Huntington's
KIRK: Anger will get you through the tough times when thinking happy f*cking thoughts about family and friends won’t do it. Just don’t let the anger eat you up until it’s all you got left. I know too many good men ruined by their resentments.
— Bijou Hunter, Whiskey Blues
There is no amount of bad karma that can compete with a contrite spirit and God's forgiveness.
— Shannon L. Alder
Come. There is a way to be good again...
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Then forgive him. And if you can't forgive, at least forget, for he meant you no harm, however rash that act was.
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Forgiveness for ourselves and other is one of the main elements in growth. It allows us to free ourselves of the issues that are holding us down.
— Nanette Mathews
Count your salted wounds then name themlike the stars of a bright constellationCount your scars and bruises then give themthe wings of forgiveness to fly
— Malak El Halabi
Hell is a place reserved for people who want their enemies to rot in Hell for sinning against them. Heaven is a place of amnesty
—  where the trespassers have forgiven their trespassers.
If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.
— Lewis B. Smedes
The Queen (Victoria) wrote generously to her mother, 'I quite understand your feelings on the occasion of Sir John Conroy's death. . . I will not speak of the past and the many sufferings he entailed on us by creating divisions between you and me which could never have existed otherwise, they are buried with him.. For his poor wife and children I am truly sorry." Thanking the Queen for her letter the Duchess of Kent wrote 'Yes, Sir John Conroy's death was a most painful shock. I shall not try and excuse the many errors that unfortunate man committed, but it would be very unjust if I allowed all the blame to be thrown on him. I am in justice bound to accuse myself. . . I erred in believing blindly, in acting with out refection. . . I allowed myself unintentionally to be led led to hurt you, my dearest child, for whom I would have given at every moment my life! Refection came always too late, but not the deserved punishment! My sufferings were great, very great. God be praised that those terrible times are gone by and that only death can separate me from you My beloved Victoria.
— Cecil Woodham-Smith, Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort
Love may be the most excellent way, but it is also a difficult path to follow and one on which we will most assuredly stumble and fall. If we are not to lose our way, Humility must be our guide, and if we are to surmount disappointment and regain our footing, Forgiveness must be our porter.
— James Castleton, MD, Mending of a Broken Heart
To forgive is a gift of God that permits us to let go of our past hurts.
— Jean Vanier, Finding Peace
The word forever had been coming up a lot during my two years among the publicly shamed. Jonah and Justine and people like them were being told, 'No. There is no door. There is no way back in. We don't offer any forgiveness.' But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don't?
— Jon Ronson
It's easy to loveBut hard to forgive
— K-Girl
I have never read, heard or seen hatred and guilt win a fight. When we walk in the light of forgiveness and love we meet true victory.
— Ogwo David Emenike
I forgive you. Case closed.” Is not the final answer
—  love is the final answer no matter how long it may take – The Book of Hosea!
There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
It had been well if he had been left with only a wounded heart, but in that heart lay wounded pride. He hid it carefully, and the keener in consequence grew the sensitiveness, almost feminine, which no stranger could have suspected beneath the manner he wore. Under that bronzed countenance, with its firm-set mouth and powerful jaw--below that clear blue eye, and that upright easy carriage, lay a faithful heart haunted by a sense of wrong: he who is not perfect in forgiveness must be haunted thus; he only is free whose love for the human is so strong that he can pardon the individual sin; he alone can pray the prayer,"Forgive us our trespasses," out of a full heart. Forgiveness is the only cure of wrong. And hand in hand with Sense-of-injury walks ever the weak sister-demon Self-pity, so dear, so sweet to many--both of them the children of Philautos, not of Agape.
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston
Sometimes we want to keep the battle going...until at last we we cut ourselves free. I don't forgive you to give to you, I forgive you to give to me.
— Kate McGahan
You have only to forgive once. To resent, you have to doit all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things" Frank to Hannah Roennfeldt
— M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans
I have acted foolishly, father forgive me.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
A wise man once said: Forgive and forget its a better choice in life" - Gavhi Theron.P
— Gavhi Theron
only the strong can stop a fight with kindness
— Manuel Corazzari
Forgive because it makes you feel good.
— Deepak Chopra, Fire in the Heart: A Spiritual Guide for Teens
We all fail at times or make huge mistakes. I was among the worst. It can hurt. It can crush your spirit. To move on, we need to learn to sincerely forgive ourselves... again and again and again and again. As many times as necessary - so we can be able to feel the peace we need in our souls to keep living. Not just to be alive, but to live.Of course it also helps to forgive others when we are ready and able to, but its crucial that we need to learn to forgive ourselves too.
— José N. Harris
Forgiveness means saying that you're not going to let what happened to you define you any longer.
— Heidi Priebe, This Is Me Letting You Go
I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
— Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
His greatest satisfaction as a priest was to grant absolution, to help people forgive themselves for not being perfect, make amends, and get on with life.
— Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow
Remembering is not enough, if it simply hardens hate. Sometimes the hating has to stop.
— Eric Lomax, The Railway Man
Okay,' she said. And that was that. The shortest fight we'd ever had.
— Heather Hammonds, Cyber Hound
As long as you're still alive, you always have the chance to start again.
— Emily Acker, No Longer Broken
You're thinking I'm a changed man. That God has changed me. And that regardless of the fact that my father has left so much damage in his wake, I shouldn't hate him for it. You're telling me to think to the future ... That I shouldn't hold bitterness against the father who left ... And you hope that i can finally forgive him, which is something I've never quite been able to do." "Goodness," Sera beamed back at him. "I thought all that? I'm much wiser than I give myself credit for.
— Kristy Cambron, A Sparrow in Terezin
Forgiveness doesn't mean the person that hurt you was released from God's justice. It simply means you no longer need to carry the anger from what they done because you see it wasn't about you really. It was about how they grew up, their past, their values and their way of surviving that falls outside common decency. You just happened to be the person they put all of their past hurts on and blamed. You were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
— Shannon L. Alder
...Perhaps part of the secret of leading a life in which you would not always be worrying about things, or complaining about them, was to accept that there were people who just saw things differently from you and always would. Once you understood that, then you could accept the people themselves as they were and not try to change them. What was even more important, perhaps, was that you could love those people who looked at things so differently, because you realized that they were not trying to make life hard for you by being what they were, but were simply doing their best. Then, when you started to love them, love would do the work that it always did and it would begin to transform them and then they would end up seeing things in the same way that you did.
— Alexander McCall Smith
A man employs the full power of the state in his grief and ends up plunging his government into a fruitless and costly experiment. A woman who walks away from the promise of power finds the strength to forgive - and saves her friendship, her marriage, and her sanity. The world is turned upside down. - Chapter 8
— Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Forgiveness before one’s death, isn’t just about asking and receiving it, it’s also about forgiving others.
— Neha Yazmin, Someone Like You
Our silence about grief serves no one. We can't heal if we can't grieve; we can't forgive if we can't grieve. We run from grief because loss scares us, yet our hearts reach toward grief because the broken parts want to mend.
— Brené Brown, Rising Strong
Those who cannot easily forgive will not collect many friends. Look for the best in others and yourself.
— Ethan Hawke, Rules for a Knight
You don't ask for forgiveness, Kaz. You earn it.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
I am sure that if we can find reconciliation with our past – whether parents, partners or friends – we should try and do that. It won't be perfect, it will be a compromise . . . but it might mean acceptance and, the big word, forgiveness.
— Jeanette Winterson, Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember. Think of the vine that curls from the small square plot that was once my heart. That is the only marker you need. Move on. Walk forward into the light.
— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the linePlease, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the lineI ain't got no ticket please let me ride the blinds
— August Wilson, Fences
Forgiveness is the only way to heal ourselves and to be free from the past. Without forgiveness, we remain tethered to the person who harmed us. We are bound to the chains of bitterness, tied together, trapped. Until we can forgive the person who harmed us, that person will hold the keys to our happiness, that person will be our jailor. When we forgive, we take back control of our own fate and our feelings. We become our own liberator.
— Desmond Tutu
If I did anything right it was when I decided to practice forgiveness and free my heart from pain.
— Iva Ursano, The Shear Truth: 10 Things Your Hairstylist Really Wants You to Know.
You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.
— August Wilson, Fences
Sweet forgiveness!!
— Charmaine J. Forde
And He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek . . . And when He has done with all of them, then He will summon us. ‘You too come forth,’ He will say, ‘Come forth ye drunkards, come forth, ye weak ones, come forth, ye children of shame!’ And we shall all come forth, without shame and shall stand before him. And He will say unto us, ‘Ye are swine, made in the Image of the Beast and with his mark; but come ye also!’ And the wise ones and those of understanding will say, ‘Oh Lord, why dost Thou receive these men?’ And He will say, ‘This is why I receive them, oh ye wise, this is why I receive them, oh ye of understanding, that not one of them believed himself to be worthy of this.’ And He will hold out His hands to us and we shall fall down before him . . . and we shall weep . . . and we shall understand all things! Then we shall understand everything! . . . and all will understand
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
Enough rationalization. They simply had what you wanted, so you took it.[My chair-- I shit on my good chair!]You shit more than just your chair.You shit the world. All you ever cared about was winning -- And you did.The last man standing on a mountain of filth [. . .]Kazumi taught forgiveness. She accepted all refugees looking for a better life. And you turned that against her.Kazumi would show mercy.I'm not Kazumi.
— Rick Remender, Tokyo Ghost, Vol. 2: Come Join Us
Your test is to forgive those who have hurt you, when you pass your test you will see your breakthrough
— Jeanette Coron
Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive? I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering. I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong. Besides, too high a price is asked for harmony; it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it. And so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket, and if I am an honest man I am bound to give it back as soon as possible. And that I am doing. It's not God that I don't accept . . . only I most respectfully return him the ticket.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as an impoverished Jewish carpenter so He could shed His blood, suffer, and die for the forgiveness of our sins.
— Craig Groeschel, Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working
Forgive yourself when you fall down because we all fall down.
— Toni Sorenson, The Great Brain Cleanse
I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.
— Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Truth can be told in an instant, forgiveness can be offered spontaneously, but reconciliation is the work of lifetimes and generations.
— Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith
Since it has quietly began to snow,new distances have awakened within me.
— Gerrit Achterberg, Snow Passage
I have learned through repeated experiences that in order to heal, I MUST forgive. The forgiveness is not for the transgressor. The forgiveness is for ME.
— Sharon E. Rainey, The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal
Forgiveness does not mean I approve of or condone what transpired.
— Sharon E. Rainey, The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal
It's hard. Being 15, 16, 17. You get so angry. You want to do something with that anger. I guess try to find some other way to let it out. Don't kill people. Don't kill yourself. Let yourself grow up a little. Then you might to start to think differently about things. You might get new opportunities to do something with your life that you never thought possible as a teenager." -- Thomas Harvey in the upcoming novel, "Nikki White: Polar Extremes" (Nikki, #3)
— Jack Chaucer, Nikki White: Polar Extremes
If someone has wronged you, tell this to yourself: “I did not deserve God’s forgiveness, but He forgave me through Christ. So I forgive this person also.
— Paul Silway, Heaven I - Paradise: The City and Throne
You can't heal hurt with hate.
— K.L. Hawker, Branded
The moment you start to resent a person,you become his or her slave.He controls your dreams, absorbs your thoughts,robs you of your peace of mind,and takes away the pleasure of your life.You can never have efficiency or happiness.He influences even the tone of your voice.So, if you want to be a slave, harbor your resentments.and don't want to Forgive and have Peace of Mind.The choice is yours !
— Sham Hinduja
GOD Forgave you and GOD forgave me so you and I need to always forgive those who offend us and curse us and speak and write lies about us.
— Errol Anthony Smythe.
All of us at some time will have someone to forgive for something they did or failed to do. And all of us at some time will need forgiveness for something we did or failed to do.
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
You turned your guilt into resentment, because that seems easier to face. You won't move on until you turn it back into guilt, and then into forgiveness for yourself.
— Charlie Jane Anders
But the essence of the process at its best is basically the same: women and men join together as equals, they get deeply honest with each other about their experiences, and through this process they heal past wounds, awaken to new realisations together, reach a place of reconciliation and forgiveness, and are thereby mutually transformed.
— William Keepin, Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men
God has witnessed everything done to you. Those that love God will feel shame for what they did. Those that don't ....do not know God or have a concept of repentance or forgiveness.
— Shannon L. Alder
What I did cannot be forgiven, any more than it could have been avoided.
— Heather Day Gilbert, Forest Child
Never wait people to thank you , God is the only one who would reward you …
— Ibnoulkhatib Yahya
To become a better you, take note of what gets you offended quickly and never go there or let it come to you.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You
Forgiveness means that you will not allow a temporary event to have “forever” repercussions.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Love comes from within, respect comes from within, acceptance comes from within, forgiveness comes from within; reach inside for Your Truth and find your Royalty.
— Akiroq Brost
Unforgiveness is so much stress, I tell you. You just keep going round in circles instead of taking a straight path which forgiveness offers.
— Omoakhuana Anthonia
Just feel forgiveness in your heart. The universe will hear you and that will be enough.
— Maria Erving
Pretending”,' she looked at the garden, 'is not the truth.''But you said two true things, right ? One, you hate this girl. Two, you want her to feel better. If you decide that the wanting truth's more important than the hating truth, just tell her you've forgiven her, even if you haven't. At least she'd feel better. Maybe that'd make you feel better too.'Madame Crommelynck studied her hands, moodily, both sides. 'Sophistry', she pronounced. I'm not sure what 'sophistry' means so I kept shtum.
— David Mitchell
Not everything.” Lily takes a deep breath and begins to pace the room. “Not everything, because you aren’t. It may feel like you are, and I totally get it, I really do. The world feels like it’s crumbling around you, and it makes you feel like you’re broken too, but, Jules, you aren’t. You are more than this, you’re more than this, this- stupid planet, this stupid country. They’re reacting to what they think you are, but it doesn’t make it true.” She preaches like it hurts her, and I recognize in the back of my mind that this is what she hasn’t told herself yet. And still she offers it to me.
— Pega Rose, The Someday List
Let us not despise the woman who is neither mother nor daughter nor wife. Let us not limit our esteem to family life, narrow our tolerance to simple egotism. Given that heaven rejoices more at the repentance of one sinner than over a hundred good men who have never sinned, let us endeavor to make heaven rejoice. We may be rewarded with interest. Let us leave along the path the alms of our forgiveness for those whose earthly desires have marooned them, so that a divine hope may save them, and, as the wise old women say when they prescribe a remedy of their own invention, if it doesn't help, at least it can't hurt.
— Alexandre Dumas fils, The Lady of the Camellias
The only person who can forgive me is the one I´ve wronged. That´s the power we have. We can use that power for good — to forgive someone. Or we can use it to hold on to old wrongs and hurts so that they never heal
— Sylvain Reynard, Gabriel's Redemption
There is always someone to forgive, if not another, than yourself.
— Deborah L. Robinson
I forgive, but I also learn a lesson. I won’t hate you, but I’ll never get close enough for you to hurt me again. I can’t let my forgiveness become foolish.
— Tony Gaskins
We can ask for forgiveness, from a god, from a friend, a lover, even ourselves. We can ask for forgiveness from all of the people we’ve wronged, but we can never get back the one thing we’re truly hoping to find when we asked: our innocence—the person we were before that piece of us was taken, ripped away and shattered at our feet, leaving us to learn how to pick ourselves back up and move past it.
— Kristen Kehoe, Dropping In
When you have a chance to forgive, think of all you'll gain and forget all you've lost.
— Saim .A. Cheeda
There’s a Chinese word that means “soul sister,” and that is the word I would use to address you in my heart. Listen to me, soul sister: Fate or luck or destiny already put you through hell once. Please don’t make it worse by condemning yourself. There is no choice that would have left you feeling no guilt. Every time I watch Adam struggle to speak, every time I see another child laugh and point at him, every time I watch his face fall as he realizes he is not going to be treated like the other kids, I feel wrenched by guilt just as you did when you heard my story. Life is hard. We make the best choices we can. Condemnation, whether it comes from around you or inside you, only robs the world of another dram of compassion. God knows, we need all the compassion we can get. If you promise to try to forgive yourself, I’ll try to forgive myself as well. I think, in my heart of hearts, that there is nothing for either one of us to forgive.
— Martha Beck
There is no sin, no crime, no evil, God cannot forgive
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
And with the Savior's passing came Satan's sure defeatChrist whispered, "It is finished," for payment was complete.I could not earn salvation, it's been dispensed for freeAnd mercy's gates would open, as He has died for me.
— Joyce Rachelle, Sewing Figs
No one can claim perfection, that's why everyone needs a second chance ad infinitum
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I'm delighted to tell you that Jesus Christ offers complete and total forgiveness to anyone who will repent and believe on His name. ...There are no sins that He cannot cleanse, and He's promised that they will be gone forever.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Forgiving is not forgetting. It is actually remembering - remembering and not using your right to hit back
— Archbishop Desmont Tutu
He knew that when someone loves someone this much that they forgive everything. They will not even be aware that forgiveness is needed because they see you as perfect in all that you are and in all that you do. They live their lives in total love for themselves and for you, so that nothing you do can hurt or harm them because their love is stronger than anything that can happen. This level of love wipes every slate clean and becomes the basis of a love that will grow and grow until it is bigger and stronger than anything that could ever threaten to destroy it.
— Kate McGahan, The Lizard from Rainbow Bridge: A True Tale of an Unexpected Angel
He said, 'I forgive you, Pa."And he said those words because he sensed that it was the only way to save his own heart, to stop it from breaking in two. Despereaux, reader, spoke those words to save himself.
— Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
That kind of forgiveness is of God. And if they have it, they have it, and if they don't, well, maybe they'll find it someday.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Forgiveness is a heartache and difficult to achieve because strangely, it not only refuses to eliminate the original wound, but actually draws us closer to its source. To approach forgiveness is to close in on the nature of the hurt itself, the only remedy being, as we approach its raw centre, to reimagine our relation to it.
— David Whyte, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent.
— Kenneth Logan
I forgive you. But just because I forgive you doesn't mean I want to continue to be your friend. It doesn't even mean I respect you as a man because you are not. You are a miserably scared little boy who can't tell when to let go and when to hold on. You will never be worth my time nor my friendship.
— Rebecca David
All that happened before is part of the process that brought you to now. And that is all. Just a step along the way.
— Stevie Puckett, Bliss or Bust: Uplifting Thoughts
Forget and Forgive are the only way to move forward.
— Befekadu G
When we forgive others, we give ourselves permission to let go of our own suffering.
— John Bruna
It is insufficient to understand all, and thus to forgive all. If we were to truly understand, we would know there is nothing to forgive.
— Ronald Chapman, A Killer's Grace
The scar she'd left her was so deep that it may take a thousand million years to heal. She couldn't pretend like nothing had happened. She couldn't shut her feelings, like how you shut a window blind; once you did it, all lights from the outside would be swept away from the room. It had taken her years to acknowledge the fact that she was unwanted; a subject of shame for her mother to sink in. And for sure, it would take her more than nine years to forget it all, in one go.
— Diyar Harraz, One Minute to Midnight
Forgiveness is the best way to disempower an enemy.
— Gugu Mona
A strong person forgives even the most unforgivable.
— Gugu Mona
You will find it possible to forgive when you realize that forgiveness is self remedy.
— Gugu Mona
To forgive is an act of compassion... It's not done because people deserve it. It's done because they need it.
— Joss Whedon
How do you forgive those who’ve betrayed you? Move on from the hurt they caused? Does forgiving mean you’ve given them a pass?... Forgiveness is tricky
—  I’ve often felt like I can’t… But if you don’t… you’re trapped.
As you lay yourself down to sleep tonight, think of something you are grateful for. Bless someone who was kind to you, and forgive someone who wasn't.
— Eileen Anglin
Choose forgiveness not revenge , choose unity in diversity , choose equality and seeing everyone's value , choose to love even if undeserved , choose life even when you feel like it's out of reach ,choose to have hope when the circumstances might scream despair, choose according to His word and not what people would prefer. ‪#‎chooseHisway‬
— Timothy Padayachee
Don’t see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
Forgiveness frees up your heart to allow more positivity into your life. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
— Eileen Anglin
To forgive is to refuse to contaminate the future with the errors of the past.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Can't you just let it go? Move on?"His face darkened. His eyes glared in response and he was silent a long time while his jaw worked over a toothpick. She'd used the same line that the prophet and his representatives had been using for years. Even if these things did happen, there is no point in being bitter. You should forgive and forget and let bygones be bygones. Kind of galling, considering the insistence upon forgiveness was being made by the people who had done the hurting and done nothing to make up for it. But then, that was the standard 'blame the victim' abuser mentally, and to be expected. Gideon seemed to work through this slap in the face and let it slide. He said, "For a while I thought maybe, you know, if I could talk to the people responsible. If I could show them how difficult life has been because of them, that maybe they would care. I don't know. I thought maybe if they apologized, it would be so much easier to forget this shit. You know? To do what they say and 'let it go'. But nobody will take any personal responsibility. My own parents have nothing to offer but a bunch of whiny excuses. They try to convince me that my life wasn't as bad as I remember it.""Fuck that," he said, "They weren't even there. They don't even know what went on with me. I just..."He paused and pulled his fingers through his hair. "Christ," he said. He paused again, eyes to the sky, and then back to her."Even the people who never personally raised a hand against me still propped up the regime that made it happen. They stood by and allowed it. Played a part. All of them. Every single one was a participant. Either directly or by looking away. Institutionally, doctrinally, they abused us. Sent us into the streets to beg, denied us an education, had us beaten, starved, exorcised, and separated from our parents. They broke up our families, gave our bodies to perverts, and stole our future. And then they turn around and say we're supposed to just forget it happened and move on from it. If instead we bring up the past, then they'll call us liars. Say we're exaggerating or making it up completely. Why the hell would be make any of this shit up? What's the point in that? To make our lives seem worse than they were? Not that I would, but do you have any idea how much exaggeration it would take for the average person to even begin to grasp how fucking miserable it was? And then, if they ever do admit to any of it, they say that 'mistakes were made'. ""Mistakes." he said. He was leaning forward again, punctuating the air with his finger. "Michael, they commit crimes against children. You know, those things people in society go to jail for when they're caught. And then to the public they do what they always do. Deny. Deny. Deny. And we're left more raped than ever. Victimized first by what they did, and again by their refusal to admit that it happened. They paint us as bitter apostates and liars to a world that not only doesn't give a shit, but also couldn't possibly understand even if it did.""I do," Munroe said. And Gideon stopped.
— Taylor Stevens, The Innocent
Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.
— Joyce Rachelle
If you wish good on someone with your whole heart, you cannot hold onto feelings of unforgiveness. You will be free.
— C S Areson, Impossible to Forgive?: What God Can Do When You Can't.
Life is too short for it to be used to accumulate a harem of enemies.
— Auliq-Ice
Li Gui called out, "Sir, if you kill me you will kill two persons.""How do you make that out?" asked Li Kui, staying the blow."At home I support my mother who is ninety years of age, and this is my only means of helping her in her old age," said Li Gui. "I never injure people, but only make them afraid. If you kill me, my old mother will die of starvation."Li Kui who never twinkled his eyes in chopping off people's heads, paused and thought when he heard this. "Here am I trying to succour my old mother, and yet killing a man who supports his old mother. Heaven will not allow me to live if I do this. No! No! I will forgive this man.(J.H. Jackson translation)
— Shi Nai'an, Outlaws of the Marsh
We’re at church, for god sakes!” she hissed. “This isn’t right.”He shifted just so, his eyes narrowed with stubborn determination. “Why? God is love. God nurtures love. And, I love you, Elaine Pearson, and not just for your lovely body.”“You’re talking about sex, Ian.”He visually swept the church interior, noting the empty pews and flickering candles. “No, ma’am, I’m not,” he murmured, turning his attention back to her. “Sexual attraction is only a fraction of what flows between us. My body responds to you on a physical level, but that doesn’t mean I’m not in love with your mind and your soul. Remember that,” he stated with conviction, his words sounding like an order. "I can get inside your head, love. You and I are connected in the stars—whether or not you believe that singular truth is irrelevant. What we are…who we are…together…transcends the past. Every experience led us here. You need to stop fighting me…yourself…and us.
— R. W. Patterson
Out here, we let ourselves be imperfect. We let ourselves have the room to make mistakes—sometimes tragic mistakes—then we allow ourselves forgiveness. Within that forgiveness, we try to be better than what we were.
— J.D. Brewer, The Birth of Anarchy: Vagabond's Sequel
Before getting upset, always ask yourself: Will this even matter in six months, in a year, or in five years? if the answer is no, then let it go.
— Robin Dabhi
Forgiving and being forgiven frees our souls and lightens our load.
— Sara Dormon, If You're a Christian and Everyone Likes You... Something's Wrong
I want to fix an image of him in my head, but all I can see when I close my eyes is his body, still and lifeless in my arms. I let him go, and I will never forgive myself for that.
— Clare Mackintosh, I Let You Go
Forgive, Adapt and Evolve, because holding on stagnates your opportunity of being better.
— Sachin Kumar Puli
you’re so afraid of everyone pitying you that you’d rather nurture their contempt than accept their forgiveness"- Stacey Michaels
— Nicola Sinclair, Redemption
To heal would be to open the wound,examine it and forgive
— Maeve Binchy, Light a Penny Candle
I do not serve your personal issues, Morevna. I serve the People, and the People will have crimes against their body answered. You fought at Leningrad. So did I. Why should he be spared?''Somebody ought to be.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
LIVE WELL___Forget them not, yet forgive, forgive..from self-harm, quita new page, right nowyour spirit's new year's eve.
— Tara Estacaan
How can you forgive someone when they can't give a reason why?
— PureDragonWolf
There is spiritual edification in recognizing that God stays faithful in his covenants, that he forgives all sin despite whatever historical or sociopolitical circumstance.
— James Mikołajczyk, Jesus the Jew, Christ the King: Exploring the Hypostatic Union Between the Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith
If we repent, the Lord will forgive us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
you’re so afraid of everyone pitying you that you’d rather nurture their contempt than accept their forgiveness" - Stacey Michaels
— Nicola Sinclair, Redemption
Forgiveness has no deadline.
— Paul R Bland
Never limit oneself based on the limitations of others. If you can not inspire them - leave them to be inspired by your lead
— Tiffany Luard
Erase those negative tapes playing in your head. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you forget. He can cast your hurt in forgetfulness.
— Bidemi Mark-Mordi
when you forgive people, events and circumstances, you are in the process of change, which leads you towards dominant universal emotion called love.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
When you set out to change the world, the job seems insurmountable, but each of us can do his or her small part to effect change. We change the world when we choose to create a world of forgiveness in our own hearts and minds.
— Desmond Tutu, The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World
Forgiveness is the way we return what has been taken from us and restore the love and kindness and trust that has been lost. With each act of forgiveness, whether small or great, we move toward wholeness. Forgiveness is nothing less than how we bring peace to ourselves and our world.
— Desmond Tutu
Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
— Nāgārjuna
Remember that churches would be empty ruins without the sinners who transform them into places of life, love and worship.
— Rev. Kellen Roggenbuck
Do hugs, not drugs. Spread love, not legs. Respect, don't judge. Listen more, talk less. Understand, don't assume. Forgive and forget..!!
— Aagam Shah
Turn your cheek' only works with physical slaps, only works pre-Second coming. Against guns, bombs, and the most inhumane practices ever conceived, we must protect ourselves. We must become the agents of God's vengeance.
— Peter Tieryas, United States of Japan
Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encounter with the mercy of Jesus takes place is my sin.
— Pope Francis, The Name of God is Mercy
Remember, healing through forgiveness takes place in the soul and subconscious, not by a face to face confrontation that ends in hugging and tears of joy. In fact, chances are that would never happen anyway, so you are setting yourself up for failure if that is your expectation.
— Sharon Critchfield, Waking Up to Heal
A simple word of greeting, an offer of a cup of coffee on me, a smile and a hug will all go a long way toward reconciliation. A listening ear can open a wandering heart to the thought that God still loves them, and there just might be a place still set for them at their Father’s table.
— Katherine J. Walden, Seasons: Reflections on Changes Throughout Life
You are here having realized the necessity of contending with yourself
—  then thank everyone who provides an opportunity.
You learn a lot from the people in your life who value you and for the ones that don't you learn forgiveness~
— Bluenscottish
Ulis, he prayed, abandoning the set words, let my anger die with him. Let both of us be freed from the burden of his actions. Even if I cannot forgive him, help me not to hate him. Ulis was a cold god, a god of night and shadows and dust. His love was found in emptiness, his kindness in silence. And that was what Maia needed. Silence, coldness, kindness. He focused his thoughts carefully on the familiar iconography, the image of Ulis’s open hands; the god of letting go was surely the god who would listen to an unwilling emperor. Help me not to feel hatred, he prayed, and after a while it became easier to ask that Dazhis find peace, that Maia’s anger not be added to the weight against his soul.
— Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor