Quotes on Forgiveness

 

 

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

-Bryant H. McGill

 

 

“Everyday is the first day of the rest of your life. Don't dwell on your past mistakes, nor judge others for theirs.

-Kate Adams

 

 

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

-Billy Graham

 

 

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

-Marriane Williamson

 

 

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

-H. Jackson Brown

 

 

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light.  Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears."

-Clenn Clark

 

 

"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on."

-Les Brown

 

 

"Keeping score of old scars, getting even, and one-upping, always makes you less than you are."

- Melissa Forbes

 

 

"It is impossible to go as high as you are capable of going, if you are carrying the burden of hate, revenge, and bitterness."

- Zig Ziglar

 

 

"As soon as one forgives oneself, it is like taking away a bandage that covered one's eyes. When the bandage is gone, then one can see that the ones that love us have already forgiven us long ago and are still there loving us."

- Juan Cavallo

 

 

"To forgive is to remember that we have room in our hearts to begin again...and again...and again...and again."

- Unknown

 

 

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

-Gandhi

 

 

"Forgiving is not something you do for someone else. It is something you do for yourself. An unforgiven injury binds you to a time and place someone else has chosen; it holds you trapped in a past moment and in old feelings."

- Carol Luebering

 

 

"We've got it backwards. It's not that we need to forgive in order to heal. It's that we need to heal in order to forgive."

- Margot Silk Forrest

 

 

"The harboring of hate and resentment against others is only a biting of oneself. We think we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves."

- E. Stanley Jones

 

 

"He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

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