Un Forgiveness Quotes

“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. Forgiveness breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. While dying on the cross, Jesus said, "Forgive them" - the Roman soldiers, the religious leaders, his disciples who had fled in darkness, even you and me who have denied him so many times - "Forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

— Linda Dillow

“Laughter can be a form of forgiveness-a gift, cathartic.”

— Briar Kit Esme

“You can't restore anything you've previously done, but you can face up to it. You can enlighten the reality. You can entreat forgiveness. And then let God decide and do the rest.”

— Nehali Lalwani

“When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.”

— Genevieve Gerard

“Sometimes forgiveness is the
hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.”

— Maya Banks

“It's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
- Brom”

— Christopher Paolini

“But if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger will poison you. You have to learn to let it go" ... "people have reasons for doing the things that they do, especially when they care about you. You may not always understand what they are, but if you can try to understand the person then you might see that they really care, despite what happened."
pg 100 Meredith to Vlad”

— Heather Brewer

“The longer you've known someone- the more history there is between you- the longer it will take to establish in their mind that you have truly changed. Remember, forgiveness is an altogether different thing from trust or respect. Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and cna be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands and must be earned.”

— Andy Andrews

“How do you know if you're making the right decision?
Easy. Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong.”

— Fannie Flagg

“Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.”

— Kristen Ashley

“Forgiveness is the ultimate liberator of our mind, body, and spirit.”

— Asa Don Brown

“A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up. He then called her, begging her forgiveness and giving some excuse. She told him to get lost, telling him that he only gets one shot with her, and he blew it.”

— Greg Behrendt

“Fuck forgiveness.
That's what they want me to do. Make it easy for them. Clear their consciences. Let them get away with what they've done.
The powerful. The strong. The privileged.
Not a fucking chance.”

— Leah Raeder

“Forgiveness is a revolving door positioned in your path. You must step through it to move on, but it takes both timing and choice to escape walking circles inside.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.”

— Mahavira

“If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.”

— James MacDonald

“Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

“The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.”

— Joe Nichols

“We dangle by a flimsy thread,
Our little lives are grains of sand:
The Cosmos is a tiny sphere
Held in the hollow of God's hand.
Give up your anger and your spite,
And imitate the Deer, the Tree;
In sweet Forgiveness find your joy,
For it alone can set you free.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness. It was about balance, where one person complemented the other.”

— Nicholas. Sparks

“You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

“Any time there is 'un-forgiveness' between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don't understand ... there is suffering.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

“What is forgiveness worth without trust?”

— Sharon Kay Penman

“A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.”

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“The forgiveness of the weak is the air you strong ones breath, David. Didn't you know? You don't see it but you felt it just then. They allow you to go on living.”

— Nadeem Aslam

“Forgiveness is an act of creation. You can choose from many ways to do it. You can forgive for now, forgive till then, forgive till the next time, forgive but give no more chances it's a whole new game if there is another incident. You can give one more chance, give several more chances, give many chances, give chances only if. You can forgive part, all, or half of the offense. You can devise a blanket of forgiveness. You decide”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

“Keeping the gospel in focus, you see, is more than helping our children know forgiveness of sin through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.  In the gospel there is the promise of internal transformation and empowerment.”

— Tedd Tripp

“One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.”

— Stephen Richards

“Let us have love and more love; a love that melts all opposition, a love that conquers all foes, a love that sweeps away all barriers, a love that aboundeth in charity, a large-heartedness, tolerance, forgiveness and noble striving, a love that triumphs over all obstacles.”

— Abdu'l-Baha

“You had
so much love, and so much forgiveness, and so much faith. So I started to think that maybe I was worth that faith. That I didn't have to be perfect; I had to try, and that was good enough.”

— Cassandra Clare

“Best beauty tip is forgiveness for yourself and others”

— Jacqueline Bisset

“Blame keeps wounds open, only forgiveness heals.”

— Thomas S. Monson

“Forgiveness is another way of saying, I need to mind my own business.”

— Bryant McGill

“Un-forgiveness is like cancer; it eats you from the inside out.”

— Mary Johnson

“God will forgive you if you ask him to. Though your sins be numerous as the grains of sand on the shore, God's merciful forgiveness is far greater than your sins. Do not be afraid. Trust in his love. Repent of your sins without delay and return to the house of the Father. He is waiting for you.”

— Patrick Madrid

“We are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.”

— David Jeremiah

“Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.”

— Mark Victor Hansen

“When I talk of forgiveness I mean the belief that you can come out the other side a better person. A better person than the one being consumed by anger and hatred. Remaining in that state locks you in a state of victimhood, making you almost dependent on the perpetrator. If you can find it in yourself to forgive then you are no longer chained to the perpetrator. You can move on, and you can even help the perpetrator to become a better person too”

— Desmond Tutu

“True reconciliation is never cheap, for it is based on forgiveness which is costly. Forgiveness in turn depends on repentance, which has to be based on an acknowledgment of what was done wrong, and therefore on disclosure of the truth. You cannot forgive what you do not know.”

— Desmond Tutu

“God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.”

— Philip Yancey

“If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.”

— R.C. Sproul

“Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.”

— Louise Hay

“A definite forgiveness would mean a definite recognition of our strength.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“So this is reality, this forgiveness, this reconciliation, is true for everybody. Paul insisted that when Jesus died on the cross, he was reconciling "all things, in heaven and on earth, to God." All things, everywhere ... This reality then isn't something we make come true about ourselves by doing something. It is already true. Our choice is to live in this new reality or cling to a reality of our own making.”

— Rob Bell

“With faith in the merciful Redeemer and His power, potential despair turns to hope. One's very heart and desires change, and the once-appealing sin becomes increasingly abhorrent. A resolve to abandon and forsake the sin and to repair, as fully as one possibly can, the damage he or she has caused now forms in that new heart. This resolve soon matures into a covenant of obedience to God. With that covenant in place, the Holy Ghost, the messenger of divine grace, will bring relief and forgiveness.”

— D. Todd Christofferson