Forgiveness Quotes

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

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.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

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.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.