– Quotes on Forgiveness –
These quotes on forgiveness would help you stay peaceful with mankind as you go about your activities. In a world where being out for revenge seems to be more at hand and appears to bring more satisfaction, of a certainty, it takes courage and strength to forgive.
Forgiveness Quotes
Often, forgiving doesn’t mean forgetting, it means choosing to remember love instead. These quotes will help you know more about forgiving.
1. To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. -Lewis B. Smedes
2. Forgiveness is healing, especially forgiving yourself. – Alyson Noel
3. Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me. -Robert Frost
4. To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. -Confucius
5. There is nothing more classy or powerful than showing forgiveness and grace to someone who does not deserve it.
6. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. -Tony Robbins
7. Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. Jane Austen
8. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. -William Blake
9. True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment. -David Ridge
10. Forgiving them isn’t the hard part, it’s trying to trust them again.
11. Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. –George MacDonald
12. Never forget the nine most important words of any family – I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me. -H. Jackson Brown. Jr.
13. Always forgive your enemies-nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde
14. Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. -William Arthur Ward
15. Forgiveness keeps you from being bound by something the other person might never set right. -Tony Evans
16. 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
Let it Go Quotes on Forgiveness
17. It takes a strong person to say sorry, and an even stronger person to forgive.
18. To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it. -Confucious
19. Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. – Cherie Carter-Scott
20. To forgive is to set a prisoner free, and realize the prisoner was you.
21. A heart filled with anger has no room for love. -Joan Lunden
22. Always pray to have eyes that see the best in people, a heart that forgives the worst, a mind that forgets the bad, and a soul that never loses faith in God.
23. Everybody makes mistakes. If you can’t forgive others, don’t expect others to forgive you.
24. True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment. – David Ridge
25. You’ll never know how strong your heart is until you learn to forgive who broke it.
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26. 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. -Henry Ward Beecher
27. Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. -Corrie Ten Boom
28. Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. –Nelson Mandela
Self Healing Quotes on Forgiveness
29. Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. -William Arthur Ward
30. Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. Joan Lunden
31. Forgiveness is the final form of love. -Reinhold Niebuhr
32. It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. -Maya Angelou
33. 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. Emo Philips
34. Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. -Marlene Dietrich
35. You’ll never know how strong your heart is until you learn to forgive who broke it.
36. Forgive because none of us is perfect.
37. Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.
38. One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind. – Charles Dickens
39. The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. -Thomas Szasz
40. A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. -Robert Quillen
41. The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves. – Chinese Proverb
42. It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you. – Tyler Perry
43. The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights. – Nathan Croall
Quotes on Forgiveness
44. There is nothing more classy or powerful than showing forgiveness and grace to someone who does not deserve it.
45. We ask for forgiveness. And we forgive others who ask us. In that way we can experience healing, healing in our souls. -Ed Dobsons
46. When one forgives, two souls are set free.
47. Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have dealt. – Ben Greenhalgh
48. Forgiveness keeps you from being bound by something the other person might never set right. – Tony Evans
49. Forgiveness is the best revenge. -Imam Ali
50. Sometimes the first step to forgiveness is understanding the other person is a complete idiot.
51. I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they’re sorry and an even stronger person to forgive. – Yolanda Hadid
52. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. -Abraham Lincoln
53. 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
54. Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. -Emma Goldman
55. When someone does something wrong, don’t forget all the things they did right.
56. Forgiveness is the key to mental technique because it is the mental technique by which our thoughts are transformed from fear to love. -Marianne Williamson
57. I’m not perfect. Remember that and try to forgive me when I fail you. -Elizabeth Lowell
58. What is forgiven is usually well remembered. -Louis Dudek
59. Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. -Martin Luther King. Jr.
Healing Quotes on Forgiveness
60. Forgiveness is not something we do for other people. It’s something we do for ourselves to move on.
61. Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember than to forgive and forget. – Maria Edgeworth
62. Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option. – Joel Osteen
63. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Hannah More
64. You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean much. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’- Maya Angelou
65. The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person. -Louise Hay
66. There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. -Josh Billings
67. We are not perfect, forgive others as you would want to be forgiven. – Catherine Pulsifer
68. The remedy for life’s broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don’t try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. -Iyanla Vanzant
69. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -John F. Kennedy
70. Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past. – Lily Tomlin
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71. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. – Abraham Lincoln
72. Forgiving what we cannot forgive creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. – Lewis Smedes
Quotes About Jesus on Forgiveness
Even the Bible has quotes on forgiveness to show brotherly love.
73. All major religious traditions carry basically the same message; that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. -Dalai Lama
74. When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you. -Jon Krakauer
75. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. -Hannah Arendt
76. Forgive others as quickly as you expect God to forgive you.
77. Forgiveness is the best form of love. It takes a strong person to say sorry, and an even stronger person to forgive.
78. If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one. -Robert Brault
79. When you forgive, you in no way change the past-but you sure do change the future. – Bernard Meltzer
80. Forgiving isn’t something you do for someone else. It’s something you do for yourself. It’s saying, ‘You’re not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.’ It’s saying, ‘You don’t get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.’ – Jodi Picoult
81. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. -S. Lewis
82. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Mahatma Gandhi
83. But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. – Margaret Atwood
84. Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die. -Anne Lamott
84. Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different. – Oprah Winfrey
Hurting Quotes on Forgiveness
85. Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. -Cherie Carter-scott
86. Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. –Desmond Tutu
87. Let no man pull you low enough to hate him. – Martin Luther King Jr.
88. 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
89. I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology. -Steve Maraboli
90. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. –C.S. Lewis
91. Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it. – Mason Cooley
92. Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love? -Leo Buscaglia
93. Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. -Wayne Dyer
94. There are always people who can’t forgive an able man for differing from them. – George Eliot
95. Forgiveness is not something we do for other people. It’s something we do for ourselves to move on
96. True forgiveness is when you can say, Thank you for that experience. – Oprah Winfrey
97. To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get. -David Small
Moving on Quotes on Forgiveness
98. Holding a grudge doesn’t make you strong; it makes you bitter. Forgiving doesn’t make you weak; it sets you free.
99. As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison. – Nelson Mandela
100. I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It doesn’t happen overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart. -Sue Monk Kidd
101. Real forgiveness is a lifelong commitment. You must practice it every day. – Richard Daly
102. Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself. -Deborah Reber
103. Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. – Fred Rogers
104. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember. – Barbara Kingsolver
105. The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven. – Robert Downey Jr.
106. The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of trying to hurt them back.
107. Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness but because you deserve it. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
108. We ask for forgiveness, and we forgive others who ask us. In that way, we can experience healing, healing in our souls. – Ed Dobson
Holding Grudges Quotes on Forgiveness
109. Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. – Nelson Mandela
110. 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. – Saint Augustine
111. Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.https://innaija.com.ng/articles/prayers-for-a-friend/
112. To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. Because it’s true. It’s a new world every heartbeat. – Joyce Cary
113. When you forgive, you heal. When you let go, you grow. – Forgiveness is a powerful expression of the love within our soul. – Anthony Douglas
114. Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love. – Gary Chapman
115. There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. – Bryant H. McGill
116. Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. -Martin Luther King Jr
117. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. – Hannah More
118. To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get. -David Small
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119. Genuine forgiveness is participation, and reunion overcoming the powers of estrangement. We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love. -Paul Tillich
Understanding Forgiveness Quotes
120. Real forgiveness is a lifelong commitment
121. How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself? – Publilius Syrus
122. Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals. – Thomas S. Manson
123. It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place because it frees you. -Tyler Perry
124. Always forgive your enemies–nothing annoys them so much. –Oscar Wilde
125. 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. Henry Ward Beecher
126. Though I was unaware of it at the time, that simple act of forgiveness was the beginning of an entirely new level of experiencing life for me. – Wayne Dyer
127. When you forgive, you in no way change the past -but you sure do change the future. -Bernard Meltze
128. Forgiveness isn’t approving what happened. It’s choosing to rise above it. -Robin Sharma
129. Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. – Jewel, Under the Water
130. Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. – J.K. Rowling
131. The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Harriet Beecher
132. Sometimes the first step to forgiveness is understanding that the other person is a complete idiot.
133. Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. -Criss Jami
134. Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. – Indira Gandhi
Past Quotes
135. Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. – Phillip Brooks
136. Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. -Les Brown
137. Let us forgive each other–only then will we live in peace. -Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
138. The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. Thomas Szasz
139. It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. – William Blake
140. One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed. Bernard Baruch
141. Forgiveness isn’t approving what happened. It’s choosing to rise above it. -Robin Sharma
142. We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. – Sir. Francis Bacon
143. Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. -Emma Goldman
144. Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them. -Marvin J. Ashton
145. One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.
146. Forgiveness isn’t approving what happened. It’s choosing to rise above it. – Robin Sharma
147. Forgiveness is not weak. It takes courage to face and overcome powerful emotions. – Desmond Tutu
148. Hating someone makes them important. Forgiving them makes them obsolete.
149. Forgotten is forgiven. -F. Scott Fitzgerald
150. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. -Norman Cousins
Quotes About Strength and Healing
These quotes on forgiveness will strengthen and heal.
151. Without forgiveness, life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. -Roberto Assagioli
152. Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have dealt. -Ben Greenhalgh
153. The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person. -Louise Hay
154. The remedy for life’s broken pieces is not classes, workshops, or books. Don’t try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. – Iyanla Vanzant
156. When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. Nor hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves. – Joel Osteen
157. Forgotten is forgiven. -Scott Fitzgerald
158. The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. -Marianne Williamson
159. Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. -Emma Goldman
160. 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. -Saint Augustine
161. Let us forgive each other–only then will we live in peace. -Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
162. 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
163. You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding. -Guy Finley
164. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. -Mark Twain
Resentment Quotes
165. Certainly, people make mistakes in their life. I’m no different, I’ve made mistakes. When people mess up, forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness. – Michele Bachmann
167. It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you. -Tyler Perry
168. One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him. -Socrates
169. Arguments drag out because one is too stubborn to forgive and the other is too proud to apologize.
170. 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
171. It’s not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you. -Tyler Perry
172. We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness. – Frederick William Robertson
173. 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
174. Without forgiveness, there’s no future. – Desmond Tutu
175. All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. -Dalai Lama
176. We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ― Ellen Goodman
How People Treat You Quotes
179. When you choose to forgive those who have hurt you, you take away their power.
180. We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive. -T. D. Jakes
181. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Mahatma Gandhi
182. 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. Saint Augustine
183. Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. -Jessica Lange
184. Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. -Bob Newhart
185. Forgive, that’s all it takes to have peace.
186. A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was. -Stephen Richards
187. Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend. -Jewel
188. I’m not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you. – Elizebeth Lowell
189. Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on. -Criss Jami, Salomé
190. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. -C.S. Lewis
191. If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one. – Robert Brault
192. Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life. -Wayne Dyer
193. I don’t think people understand that you can forgive a person and not allow them back into your life. That is possible, very possible. – Alex Elle
Hurt Quotes
More quotes on forgiveness to show you can get hurt but move on later.
194. Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them. -Marvin J. Ashton
195. In the blink of an eye, everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may never have that chance again.
196. Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. -Corrie Ten Boom
197. More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made. – Greg Lemond
198. Forgiveness is a reflection of loving yourself enough to move on. – Dr. Steve Maraboli
199. Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. -Mark Twain
200. If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. -Mother Theresa
Forgiveness is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. We hope you heal from every form of hurt and move on.
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