Forgiveness Quotes - Page 16

• Forgiveness is manifested mercy; it is live in action - not love based on a feeling, but love based on a decision, an intentional choice to obey God.

  Joyce Meyer

  Choices, Decision, Feelings

  Joyce Meyer (2010). “The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk to God about Everything”, p.202, Hachette UK

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• My god
  how gentle you are with me
  in spite of my great ignorance
  and how merciful You are with me
  in spite of my ugly deeds

  Ibn Ata Allah

  God, Religious, Ignorance

  84 Copy quote

• Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you.

  Drake

  Relationship, Break Up, Hope

  21 Copy quote

• Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan’s disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam’s lapse was passion.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Religious, Islamic, Passion

  84 Copy quote

• Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

  Yehuda Berg

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 07, 2016

  217 Copy quote

  Show source

• Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  Moving On, Letting Go, Moving Forward

  Gerald Jampolsky (2009). “Good-Bye to Guilt: Releasing Fear Through Forgiveness”, p.102, Bantam

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are some facts that will never change. One fact is that you are forgiven. If you are in Christ, when he sees you, your sins are covered-he doesn't see them. He sees you better than you see yourself.

  Max Lucado

  Facts, Sin, Christ

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.204, Thomas Nelson Inc

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.

  Robert Muller

  Self, Forgiving, Negative

  10 Copy quote

• One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Forgiving, Position, Oneself

  Leo Tolstoy (2012). “War and Peace”, p.111, Modern Library

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

  Jon Krakauer

  Love, Godly, Light

  "Fictional character: Ron Franz". "Into the Wild", www.imdb.com. 2007.

  60 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

  Will Smith

  Jealousy, Hater, Bullying

  Song: Just the Two of Us, Album: Big Willie Style, 1997

  278 Copy quote

  Show source

• Einstein's E=mc2 is an extraordinary concept. So radical: matter and energy are two phases of the same sort of general stuff. There's only one other idea that radical: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ideas, Two, Forgiving

  6 Copy quote

• What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

  Deepak Chopra

  Resentment, Holding On, Breaths

  Twitter post from Aug 6, 2014

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiving, Degrees, Love One Another

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.138, Vivekananda Kendra

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Weakness, Want

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.417, Manonmani Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.

  Ernest Holmes

  Mistake, Starting Over, Forgiving

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “365 Science of Mind: A Year of Daily Wisdom from Ernest Holmes”, p.102, Penguin

  88 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

  William Blake

  Vices, Paradise, Mutual

  'For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise' 'Mutual Forgiveness of each Vice' [prologue]

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing in the Christian life is more important than forgiveness-our forgiveness of others and God's forgiveness of us.

  John F. MacArthur

  Christian, Important, Life Is

  John F MacArthur (2011). “The MacArthur New Testament Commentary Set of 31 volumes”, p.374, Moody Publishers

  209 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be forgiven is such sweetness that honey is tasteless in comparison with it. But yet there is one thing sweeter still, and that is to forgive. As it is more blessed to give than to receive, so to forgive rises a stage higher in experience than to be forgiven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessed, Giving, Honey

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 31: Sermons 1816-1876”, p.374, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

  Samuel Butler

  Love Is, Forgiving, Easy

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4367, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Resentment, Advantage

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2015

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more people know, the more they forgive.

  Confucius

  People, Forgiving, Knows

  10 Copy quote

• To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

  Horace Mann

  Inspiring, Compassion, Charity

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.297

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Mind, Body

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1539, Manonmani Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

  Zoe Akins

  Cost Of Living, Cost, Forget

  Zoë Akins (1937). “The Hills Grow Smaller: Poems”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source