When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
To understand is to forgive.
True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.
Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.
I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.
The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
How many times should you forgive your household bruiser? You should not even think about forgiving him. Not yet. Not as long as he has his foot on your neck. Your problem at this point is not forgiving. Your problem is how to get out of his reach. Once you get away from him, you can think about forgiving him.
If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
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