Forgiveness Quotes: Healing Words for the Soul (Page 2)

"Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons"

Jessica Lange, Actress

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

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven"

Kevyn Aucoin, Artist

"The healing journey is a journey to the self, to acceptance, to forgiveness, and to love"

Yung Pueblo, Writer

"We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness"

Frederick William Robertson, Clergyman

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

Hannah More, Writer

"Forgiveness means letting go of the past"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

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

Mary Chesnut, Author

"When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

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

Lewis B. Smedes

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"There is no forgiveness in nature"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

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

Grace Hopper, Scientist

"When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier"

Craig T. Nelson, Actor

"Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself"

Suzanne Somers, Actress

"Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness"

Billy Ray Cyrus, Musician

"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, Celebrity

"China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks"

Virginia Foxx, Politician

"For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!"

Susan Smith, Criminal

"If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption"

Josh McDowell, Writer

"Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual"

Jennifer O'Neill, Actress

"Forgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you"

Jennifer O'Neill, Actress

"Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend"

Jewel, Musician

"The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency"

Robert Rainy, Clergyman

"Life is an adventure in forgiveness"

Norman Cousins, Author

"I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness"

Scott Stapp, Musician

"I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility"

John Rowland, Politician

"I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members"

William P. Leahy, Educator

"And as I ask for your forgiveness, I also ask for your support to keep all things in perspective and keep all things in proportion. The good of nine years versus the bad"

John Rowland, Politician

"My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness"

Janine Turner, Actress

"On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level"

Edward Albert, Actor

"One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious"

Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Writer

"Forgiveness is the final form of love"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness"

Julian Clary, Comedian

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