The best quotes about Forgiving

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The only way out of this labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

John Green in Looking for Alaska

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

Enemies & Opponents Names

The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

William Shakespeare in Der Sturm

Revenge

Forgiveness is not about forgetting, Mack. It is about letting go of another person's throat.

William Paul Young in The Shack

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver, to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to love fully and openly.

William Paul Young in The Shack

You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness and give him over to me so that my love will burn from his life every vestige of corruption.

William Paul Young in The Shack

Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

Colossians - 3, 13

Failures & Mistakes

Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.

Luke - 23, 34

Good Friday

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

Jennifer Cavilleri Barrett in Love Story

Love Loyalty

There will always be more questions. Every answer leads to more questions. The only way to survive is to let some of them go.

David Levithan in Every Day

Questions Quotes to think about

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.

Lewis B. Smedes

Love

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps.

Mary E. Pearson in The Jenna Fox Chronicles - The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.

William Paul Young in The Shack

Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

Nick Nolte

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you.

Jon Krakauer in Into the Wild

For person with no forgiveness in heart, living even worse punishment than death.

Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid - Part II

Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive.

Rudolfo Anaya

Women

I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'

Kate Winslet

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's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

Sue Monk Kidd

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

T. D. Jakes

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

T. D. Jakes

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

Peace

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Nelson Mandela

But if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger will poison you. You have to learn to let it go.

Heather Brewer

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

Lewis B. Smedes

Relationships

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

Bryant H. McGill

Love

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill

Duty Freedom Hope Justice Honor

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

Ruth Graham

Marriage

People who think that they can make up their past follies with regret, cannot be forgiven.

Kurama in Elfen Lied

"Mercy is the sweetest wine and the bitterest wormwood," Eliss, the mother, said. "For it rewards the merciful and shames the guilty."

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 2: Tower Lord

But remember that forgiveness too is a power.

Margaret Atwood in The Handmaid's Tale

Don't judge people on who they used to be. Allow them to be who they are now.

Tom Hiddleston

Forgiveness is not a single act, but a matter of constant practice.

Diana Gabaldon

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.

Morgan Freeman

It's the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.

Carrie Fisher

I am someone who can't hold on to negativity or hold on to grudges. I might feel something at a certain point, but I get tired after that. I don't carry it with me. I forgive and forget very easily, and that's the only way to be happy and peaceful.

Deepika Padukone

I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.

Alija Izetbegovic

If you haven't forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They're sleeping at night. You're holding onto that, and all the damage is being done to you internally.

Tyler Perry

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

Marianne Williamson

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

Maya Angelou

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Indira Gandhi

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.

James E. Faust

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

Emma Goldman

Understanding

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

Lewis B. Smedes

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

William Arthur Ward

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

François de La Rochefoucauld

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

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Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Friendship Blood

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

Lula da Silva

Guilt

It's like I used to tell my wife: "I do not apologize unless I think I'm wrong. And if you don't like it, you can leave." And I say the same thing to my current wife. And I'll say it to my next one too.

Stanley Hudson in The Office - Season 4 Episode 12

Apologize

Sometimes, we think we're strong for holding on. But true strength lies in letting go.

Change Farewell & Goodbye Letting go

Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence.

William Paul Young in The Shack

Upbringing Parents

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