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Forgiveness Quotes
Forgiveness is probably the most powerful healing agent to help you recover from the hurts in your past. I've included an inspirational video on the Gift of Forgiveness. Forgiveness Quotes Index
Video - The Gift of ForgivenessTeaching video outlines the cost of un-forgiveness and the benefits of forgiveness. This lovely video has the soothing music of “Pax Deorum” by Enya and inspirational messages on forgiveness with powerful quotes on forgiveness. Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes If you enjoyed this video, we have a whole collection of forgiveness videos ranging from true stories of forgiveness to inspirational videos with encouraging messages and quotes on forgiveness for your enjoyment. About Forgiveness"Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule." "A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable." "Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave." "Forgiveness is the final form of love." "Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life." "Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again." "Forgiveness means letting go of the past." "Forgotten is forgiven." "I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." "Life is an adventure in forgiveness." "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them." "Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Beautiful"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." "Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again." "Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another." "To err is human; to forgive, divine." "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Benefits of Forgiveness"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." "Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." "Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits." "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods." "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future." "You have to forgive to forget, and forget, to feel again." "Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself." "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." "Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury." "Forgiveness is the cleansing fire that burns away old regrets and resentments." "Forgiving is not a gift to someone else - "Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Bible Verses
"As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us." "'Come now, let us reason together,' says the LORD. "I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more. Review the past for me, let us argue the matter together; state the case for your innocence." "The Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him;" "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' "For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins." "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." "Then came Peter to him, and said,Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times?Jesus saith unto him,I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes "Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord," "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus," "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace." "For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." "Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need." "Then he adds: 'Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.'" "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." "My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Cost of Lack of Forgiveness"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." "Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." "For man with no forgiveness in heart, life worse punishment than death." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Forgiveness is NOT…"Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past." "Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Forgiving Enemies"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." "It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Forgiving Others"It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Forgiving Self"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself." "I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach." "People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes God and Forgiveness"God will forgive me. It's his job." "I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his." "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Good Advice"My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person." "If you can't forgive and forget, pick one." "Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good." "Forgive. It doesn't erase their crime but why should you do the time. Let go of resentment." "People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; ...Forgive them anyway." "Today, I say yes to forgiving.I commit to being for-giving loveand for-giving compassion in all areas of my life." "Affirmation: I forgive everyone, especially myself,for all actions and all inactions throughout my entire life." "Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness." "Laugh when you can, Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes How to Forgive"The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -- not from the mind." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Humorous"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me." "There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site." "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Importance of Forgiveness"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness." "Without forgiveness, there's no future." "When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free." "Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons". "Forgiveness is the key to happiness." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Insightful"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven." "One forgives to the degree that one loves." "Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it." "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." "There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." "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." "Forgiving is rediscovering the shining path of peace that at first you thought others took away when they betrayed you." "The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights." "What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven." "Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation." "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." "A wise man will make haste to forgive,because he knows the true value of time,and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Inspirational"Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself." "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." "Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge." "We are most like God when we forgive." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Reconciliation"It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Unconditional Forgiveness"Unconditional forgiveness is the path to your own inner peace." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes You Have Forgiven WHEN…"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well." "How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all." Return to Index of Forgiveness Quotes Return to Life Quotes - from Forgiveness Quotes
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