Great Quotes On Forgiveness

When everything in you wants to hold a grudge, point a finger and remember the pain. God wants you to lay it aside. Why? Because, when you release it, you will be set free. - R.T. Kendall

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing that you were the prisoner. - Max Lucado

Those who are able to forgive were best able to rebuild their lives. - Corrie ten Boom (referring to Holocaust survivors).

Jesus forgave his murderers on the spot. It's taken me eleven years. - Ella Jo Sadler (referring to the men who murdered her father).

"Forgiveness always seems so easy, when we need it, and so hard when we need to give it." -- Fresh Start Devotionals

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”? Oscar Wilde

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. - Honoré de Balzac

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. - Henry Ward Beecher

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator; If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist; If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist; If our greatest need had been pleasure, God would have sent us an entertainer. But our greatest need was forgiveness, so God sent us a Savior. - Unknown.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Not long before she died in 1988, in a moment of surprising candor in television, Marghanita Laski, one of our best-known secular humanists and novelists, said, "What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness. I have nobody to forgive me." - John Stott in The Contemporary Christian.

General Oglethorpe once said to John Wesley, "I never forgive and I never forget." To which Wesley replied, "Then, Sir, I hope you never sin." – Unknown

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, was reminded one day of a vicious deed that someone had done to her years before. But she acted as if she had never even heard of the incident. "Don't you remember it?" her friend asked. "No," came Barton's reply, "I distinctly remember forgetting it."¬ -¬¬ Luis Palau, Experiencing God's Forgiveness, Multnomah Press, 1985.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. - Robert Quillen

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. - Mark Twain

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. - Katherine Ponder

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. - George Herbert

Only the brave know how to forgive. A coward never forgives; it is not in his nature. - Laurence Sterne

People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. - Mother Teresa

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. - Cherie Carter-Scott

As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind. - Isabelle Holland

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast." - Marlene Dietrich

"Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting." - William Arthur Ward

"Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation." - Roberto Assagioli

"Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you out of love takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice." - Dag Hammarskjold

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the Presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended. – Matthew Simpson

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. - C. S. Lewis

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. - William Blake

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at all, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil. - Dale Carnegie

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. - Sydney J. Harris

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. - Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive. - William P. Young

Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free! - Stormie Omartian

I firmly believe that a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone. - Dwight L. Moody