Well, weve compiled73inspirational and wise forgiveness quotes to help inspire you to choose to have a forgiving heart.
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Forgiveness doesnt mean youre okay with the wrong things they did.
It doesnt mean that youll forget their wrongdoings.
And it certainly doesnt have to mean reconciliation.
In the simplest form,forgiveness frees you.
Forgiving those who wronged you, even if thats yourself, is not about them.Forgiveness is all about you!
Now, no one will tell you that forgiving is an easy journey because it is not!
It takes enough courage, of a lot of it.
Butwhat does forgiveness really mean?How do you truly forgive someone?Can you?
1.It takes a strong person to say sorry, but it takes an even stronger person to forgive.
Anonymous
2.The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
3.There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Bryant H. McGill
4.Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
5.Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
Oprah Winfrey
6.You never know how strong your heart is until you learn to forgive who broke it.
Anonymous
7.To Forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that the prisoner was you.
Criss Jami
9.The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind.
It really has nothing to do with the other person.
Louise Hay
10.Forgiveness is Gods greatest gift.
1.Hating someone makes them important.
Forgiving them makes them obsolete.
Anonymous
2.When you choose to forgive those who have hurt you, you take away their power.
Anonymous
3.To be wronged is nothing.
Unless you remember it.
Confucius
4.Throughout life, people will make you mad, disrespect you, and treat you bad.
Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
Will Smith
5.Holding a grudge doesnt make you strong; it makes you bitter.
Forgiving doesnt make you weak; it sets you free.
Anonymous
6.Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars.
You have to let go at some point for move forward.
Lewis
7.Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
Martin Luther King Jr.
8.Resentment is like drinking poison then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Nelson Mandela
9.Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
Jonathan Huie
10.Forgive, forget.
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
The art of genuine forgiveness is the hardest of all.
As William Blake said, it is easier to forgive your enemy than a friend.
And the funny thing is, its hardest to forgive yourself.
1.How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
2.It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes.
We need to learn from our errors and move on.
Wayne Dyer
4.We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
Lewis
6.I have learned that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself.
You must love yourself.
You have to forgive yourself so much until you dont see those things anymore.
Because thats what love is like.
Steve Maraboli
8.To be Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
Lewis
9.As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgiveness.
Joan Baez
10.You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing.
God knows that, and you know it.
Nobody else may know it.
As long as you are ready and willing to open yourself to the broader experience of life.
Love and forgiveness go hand in hand and exist in a cycle.
The more room you have in your life to love, the great your capacity for forgiveness can become.
Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind.
Dont become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes.
Dont remind yourself of what should have, could have, or would have been.
Release it and let it go.
Elizabeth Gilbert
3.Do as heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgiven yourself.
William Shakespeare
4.The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey.
The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.
James Van Praagh
5.Its toughest to forgive ourselves.
So, its probably best to start with other people.
Its almost like peeling an onion.
Patty Duke
6.Everyone makes mistakes.
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love.
In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.Robert Muller
8.
The first to apologize is the bravest.
The first to forgive is the strongest.
And the first to forget is the happiest.
Anonymous
9.Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.
Igor Stravinksy
10.Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you.
Its a choice not to hold the offense up against someone.
Sometimes, it can be an expression of love or compassion.
It doesnt exonerate the offender.
And it certainly doesnt mean youre okay with what they did to you.
It doesnt matter if they deserve your forgiveness.
Instead, forgiveness forces you to heal and grow beyond where you are today.
1.Forgiving you is my gift to you.
Moving on is my gift to myself.
Anonymous
2.Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
Anne Lamott
3.Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
Idowu Koyenikan
5.Let us forgive each other only then will we live in peace.
Leo Tolstoy
6.Holding a grudge doesnt make you strong; it makes you bitter.
Forgiving doesnt make you weak; it sets you free.
Dave Willis
7.The simple truth is, we all make mistakes, and we all need forgiveness.
Desmond Tutu
8.Certainly, people make mistakes in their life.
When people mess up, forgive them.
When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.
Robert Frost
10.Im not perfect.
Remember that and take a stab at forgive me when I fail you.
But in many situations, its better to forgive and still remember, but graciously.
However, forgiving doesnt always mean forgetting.
Its not a golden rule.
Knowing how to forgive someone can be an essential life skill.
But remembering who and what hurt us is necessary if we are to learn from past experiences.
Thomas Szasz
2.Forgiving doesnt mean forgetting; it means choosing to remember love instead.
Kyle Gray
3.What is forgiven is usually well remembered.
Louis Dudek
4.Forgiving does not erase the bitter past.
A healed memory is not a deleted memory.
Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember.
We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Lewis B. Smedes
5.Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.
Paul Young The Shack
6.
If you cant forgive and forget, pick one.
Robert Brault
7.Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this.
Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive but never forget.
Robert Jordan
8.We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.
He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King Jr.
9.One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
10.Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
And thats completely fine.
Forgiveness works in many ways, and none of them are any more valid than another.
1.Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
2.Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Anonymous
5.Sometimes the first step to forgiveness is understanding the other person is a complete idiot.
Anonymous
6.Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sinsfor breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
7.Its far easier to forgive an enemy after youve got even with him.
Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Katherine Ponder
9.Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace.
Forgiveness is for you.
Forgiving can be even more complex than the hurt itself.
But remember, holding too long to blame and resentment can make your life bitter.
1.Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea until they have something to forgive.
Lewis
2.Forgiveness is not always easy.
At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered to forgive the one that inflicted it.
And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson
3.When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron.
Stephen Richards
4.Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself.
It sounds so simple, but dont think that it is easy for a second.
Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work but definitely worth the effort.
And the payoff is health, wholeness, and inner peace.
In other words, youget your life back.
Steve Goodier
5.Forgiveness is hard but holding onto your anger is harder.
Anonymous
6.Forgiveness is the best charity.
Meher Baba
7.Take forgiveness slowly.
Dont blame yourself for being slow.
Yoko Ono
8.The journey to forgiveness begins in pain and ends in hope.
Brenda Seefeldt Amodea
9.Its one of the greatest gifts you could give yourself, to forgive.
They say that the wise forgive.
This is because they understand that forgiveness in life is freeing.
For the late Desmond Tutu, forgiveness was about freeing yourself.
