Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Votes: 6
Mark TwainTo forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. Votes: 5
Lewis B. SmedesWhen you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. Votes: 4
Bernard MeltzerForgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. Votes: 3
Mary Boykin ChesnutForgiveness is strength.The strength to move ahead without any resentment. Votes: 3
Lailah Gifty AkitaForgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom. Votes: 3
William Arthur WardForgiveness can be viewed as love, But love doesn't always guarantee forgiveness. Votes: 3
Gisclerc MorissetForgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive. Votes: 3
Jodi PicoultForgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity. Votes: 3
Debasish MridhaForgiveness is the ultimate preventive medicine, as well as the greatest healer. Votes: 3
Marianne WilliamsonForgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive. Votes: 3
Tim RelfForgiveness comes later in life, after you've created enough disasters of your own. Votes: 3
Mat JohnsonForgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing. Votes: 3
Iyanla VanzantForgiveness is knowing and remembering what happened, but choosing to move beyond it. Votes: 3
Ashley OrmonForgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong. Votes: 3
John DrydenForgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. Votes: 3
Hannah MoreForgiveness is the intentional act or process of pardoning or offering absolution unto another. Votes: 3
Asa Don BrownForgiveness is easy. Trust is much more difficult, and should never be given lightly. Votes: 3
Ellen HopkinsForgiveness is a stunning principle, your ticket out of hate and fear and chaos. Votes: 3
Barbara JohnsonForgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different. Votes: 3
Tyler PerryForgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost. Votes: 3
Jonathan TropperForgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different. Votes: 3
Oprah WinfreyForgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat. Votes: 3
Wm. Paul YoungForgiveness is the fastest way to a spiritual path and inner peace of mind Votes: 3
Muhaya Haji MohamadForgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat. Votes: 3
William P. YoungForgiveness isn't about letting the other person off the hook - it's about releasing ourselves. Votes: 3
Gabrielle BernsteinForgiveness is not about forgetting, Mack. It is about letting go of another person's throat. Votes: 3
Wm. Paul YoungForgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice. Votes: 3
Alain de BottonForgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge. Votes: 3
Karl LagerfeldForgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner! Votes: 3
Max LucadoForgiveness. It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place. Votes: 3
Ian GardnerForgiveness is the Most Powerful thing you can Do for Yourself on the Spiritual Path. Votes: 3
Wayne DyerForgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other. Votes: 3
Beth KephartForgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me. Votes: 3
Corrie Ten BoomForgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall. Votes: 3
Deepak ChopraForgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them. Votes: 3
Richard Paul EvansForgiveness is the flower of love and kindness; it only grows in the bravest heart. Votes: 3
Debasish MridhaForgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. Votes: 3
Lawana BlackwellForgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual. Votes: 3
Jennifer O'NeillForgiveness is the best gift of love and kindness that we can give to our enemies. Votes: 3
Debasish MridhaForgiveness releases you from a past that no longer defines you. Allow yourself to move on. Votes: 3
Cheryl RichardsonForgiveness isn't simply an option or a good idea; it is mandatory for our restorative process. Votes: 3
Grace GealeyForgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon. Votes: 3
Nelson MandelaForgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ. Votes: 3
Oswald ChambersForgiveness is not generally something that you find as a coin to be used by politicians. Votes: 3
Desmond TutuForgiveness is not an event. It is a series of decisions made over and over again. Votes: 3
Karen SalmansohnForgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party. Votes: 3
Harold S. KushnerForgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness. Votes: 3
Art AlexakisForgiveness is the kindest form of revenge and it brings the sweetest form of peace on earth. Votes: 3
Debasish MridhaForgiveness is about your peace of mind. When you don't forgive, you are the one who suffers. Votes: 3
Bryant McGillForgiveness is not a gift you give someone else, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself. Votes: 3
Donald L. HicksForgiveness is not between me and the one who has hurt me; it is between me and the Lord. Votes: 3
Virginia H. PearceForgiveness is not a matter of who is right or wrong. It is a matter of doing the right thing. Votes: 3
Choa Kok SuiI invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition. Votes: 2
Jean-Francois CopeIt's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. Votes: 2
Maya AngelouThe bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Votes: 2
Harriet Beecher StoweTo be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. Votes: 2
C. S. LewisHis heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. Votes: 2
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou have permission to release all loyalties to past mistakes. Votes: 1
LaShaun Middlebrooks CollierLife, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonWhatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.
D. Todd ChristoffersonEveryone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAnger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-ScottThe forgiveness of the world can only be accomplished by the judgment of the world.
Ralph Washington SockmanNothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
Samuel RichardsonThe only revenge which is essentially Christian is that of retaliating by forgiveness.
Frederick William RobertsonWhat I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.
Marghanita LaskiMan can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.
Spencer W. KimballThe more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.
Timothy KellerWealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.
R. A. TorreyWe are to extend forgiveness to others in the same way that God did to us: Unconditionally.
David JeremiahI don't want to express violence or anger or hate in my art. I want to express forgiveness.
Raymond PettibonI think we have such a crown jewel in the forgiveness of God, and it changes people's lives.
Max LucadoSometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.
Maya BanksIt's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.
Bjarne StroustrupTo get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it.
Christiane NorthrupWe must not only speak about forgiveness and reconciliation, we must act on these principles.
Desmond TutuIt's not our ability to get forgiveness that saves us. It's out ability to grant forgiveness.
Jeri Smith-ReadyTrue forgiveness is one of the most healing releasing, and freeing gifts we give to ourselves.
Brandon BaysReceiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which effects forgiveness and heals the sin-sick soul.
Marion G. RomneyDon't be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.
Pope FrancisLet no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.
Saint John ChrysostomI will be asking for forgiveness, but hopefully I won't have to be asking for much forgiveness.
Donald TrumpAnger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonIt may be easier to get forgiveness than permission, but trust is harder to get back than both.
Ingrid WeirGrace is not blind. It sees the hurt full well. But chooses to see God's forgiveness even more.
Max LucadoWhen you fall in love, love deeply. Be tough but also be open to the possibility of forgiveness.
Nicholas SparksForgiveness is not about the other person or what they did. Forgiveness is for YOU and about YOU.
Iyanla VanzantForgiveness isn't about condoning what has happened to you or someone else's actions against you.
Jennifer O'NeillEvery twenty-four hours God has a fresh new supply of grace, of favor, of wisdom, of forgiveness.
Joel OsteenForgiveness isnât something Iâm preoccupied with â turning the other cheek isnât my trip.
Karl LagerfeldIf you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.
Sri ChinmoyForgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
Marianne WilliamsonThe pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
Frederick BuechnerI just find in our world that forgiveness is becoming more and more a difficult thing for us to do.
Tavis SmileyThis Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
Thomas AquinasCompassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life
Dalai LamaNo marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
Elisabeth ElliotSomehow forgiveness, with love and tolerance, accomplishes miracles that can happen in no other way.
Gordon B. HinckleyLove manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.
Hazrat Inayat KhanIf it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.
J. Golden KimballSin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before
Karl BarthFor 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow