Forgiveness Quotes: Healing Words for the Soul

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it"

"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, Celebrity

"Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts"

Mary Chesnut, Author

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

Marianne Williamson, Author

"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, Clergyman

"Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"Forgiveness is the final form of love"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

"God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit"

Peter Ustinov, Actor

"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"Forgiveness is God's command"

Martin Luther, Professor

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness"

Josh Billings, Comedian

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

Mason Cooley, Writer

"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"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

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

William Arthur Ward, Writer

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

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Without forgiveness, there's no future"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"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, Saint

"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, Leader

"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong"

John Dryden, Poet

"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

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

Jean Paul, Author

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

George MacDonald, Novelist

"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge"

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

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

Hannah More, Writer

"The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life"

Lee Tergesen, Actor

"The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"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"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"Forgiveness leads to love, and love leads to forgiveness"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness"

Dar Williams, Musician

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