Forgiveness Quotes - Page 7

• The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy. Our thoughts become shackled, our emotions are chained, the will is almost paralyzed. But when we show mercy, all of these bonds are broken, and we enter into a joyful liberty that frees us to share God's love with others.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Broken, Liberty, World

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• Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust of unfairness and create a chance for a new fairness. Only forgiveness can make the breakthrough.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Break Through, Done, Fairness

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• You may be at a crossroads in your life. You may have issues to deal with; people you need to forgive. You can go one of the two ways. You can ignore what you now know to be true and keep burying that bitterness in your life, pushing it deeper and allowing it to poison and contaminate you and those around you. Or you can make a much better choice by getting it out in the open and asking God to help you to totally forgive and let it all go.

  Joel Osteen

  Two, Issues, People

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• Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Glasses, Waiting

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• Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat of their pain is a response to the beat of yours, they have become truthful in their feelings...they have moved a step closer to a truthful reunion.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Pain, Feelings, Steps

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

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Two

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• Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

  Dalai Lama

  Adversity, Forgiving, Stones

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.17, Penguin Books India

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

  Hannah More

  Heartbroken, Anger, Hatred

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.639

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• To be social is to be forgiving.

  Robert Frost

  Forgiving, Society, Injustice

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.316, Harvard University Press

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• If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

  Robert Frost

  Long, People, Forgiving

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.316, Harvard University Press

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• A man who is wrathful with us is a sick man; we must apply a plaster to his heart - love; we must treat him kindly, speak to him gently, lovingly. And if there is not deeply-rooted malice against us within him, but only a temporary fit of anger, you will see how his heart, or his malice, will melt away through your kindness and love - how good will conquer evil. A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Wise, Kindness

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• Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Marriage, Women, Forgive And Forget

  Marlene Dietrich's ABC (1962)

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• I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again.

  Catherine Marshall

  Acceptance, Self, Healed

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• Remembrance of Jesus' passion will heal your soul of resentment, by making it ashamed of itself when it remembers the patience of the Lord. Some people have wearied themselves and suffered for a long time in order to extract forgiveness. By far the best course, however, is to forget the offences, since the Lord says: "Forgive at once and you will be forgiven in generous measure." (cf. Luke 6:37-38)

  John Climacus

  Jesus, Passion, Order

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• Before you judge someone else, stop and think about all that God has forgiven you for.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Christian, Religious

  Twitter post from Feb 10, 2013

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• Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Peace, Buddhist

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• We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die-for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Hurt, Hate, Sleep

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• Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

  Alice Miller

  Anger, Doe, Faces

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.248, Macmillan

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

  Billy Graham

  Spiritual, Men, Two

  Billy Graham (2011). “The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy,
  shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.

  Thomas Szasz

  Enemy, Unjust, Rewards

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• Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

  Albert Camus

  Republic, Impossible, Logic

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.124, Vintage

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• Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.

  William Shakespeare

  Letting Go, Evil, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.7667, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The offender never pardons.

  George Herbert

  Literature, Pardon, Offenders

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.309

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• Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ideas, Lovely, Sublime

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• There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Faith, Fear

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 01, 2011

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