Forgiving Quotes - Page 25

• How easy it is to forgive and loose the most violent offender, when in tears, they repent. How difficult it is forgiving our own self, for the eyes of our reflection will always expose our untold sins.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Eye, Reflection, Self

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• What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.

  Marghanita Laski

  Christian, Envy, Forgive Me

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• I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Forgive Me, May, Gulags

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• When we forgive and let go, not only does a huge weight drop off your shoulders, but the doorway to your own self-love opens.

  Louise Hay

  Letting Go, Self, Doe

  Louise L. Hay (1991). “The Power Is Within You”, p.72, Hay House, Inc

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• Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.

  Louise Hay

  Past, Forgive Yourself, Live In The Present

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Mar 28, 2016

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• If dead things love, if earth and water distinguish friends from enemies, I should like to possess their love. I should like the green earth not to feel my step as a heavy burden. I should like her to forgive that she for my sake is wounded by plough and harrow, and willingly to open for my dead body.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Water, Enemy, Body

  Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”

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• There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mistake, Moving, Past

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• If you can forgive yourself then you will no longer see the reflection of your own internal judgement in the faces of the people around you. And if you can do that then suddenly you’ll be in a whole different universe because the universe we all exist in is the one where we’re all so terrified of the judgement of our peers.

  Duncan Trussell

  Reflection, Different Universes, People

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• We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.

  Denis Waitley

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• Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.

  Mark Lawrence

  Return, Flaws, Easier

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• If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

  Barbara Johnson

  Believe, Joy, Celebrate

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.215, Zondervan

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• If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

  Gary Zukav

  Forgiveness, Hate, Light

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Jan 09, 2017

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• As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the forgiving of sins.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  May, Fellowship, Bears

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.79, SCM Press

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• When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.

  Bernie Siegel

  Unforgivable, Unlovable

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• I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

  Maya Angelou

  Mistake, Years, Important

  "The Amazing Fitness Adventure for Your Kids: 90 Days to Raising Healthy Children". Book by Phil Parham and Amy Parham, September 1, 2011.

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• Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Sacrifice, Sacrificing Everything

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• I #‎ forgive not because I became a saint, but because I'm tired of hating.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hate, Tired, Saint

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• In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of one’s grandchildren, and since these are institutional maladies, they will not be easy to overcome. While much remains uncertain, we can assure ourselves, with fair confidence, that future generations will not forgive us our silence and apathy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Grandchildren, Silence, Overcoming

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• Whenever we are ill, we need to search our hearts to see what we need to forgive.

  Louise Hay

  Heart, Needs, Ill

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• Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Pain, Way, Firsts

  Lewis B. Smedes, Jeff Crosby (2007). “Days of Grace Through the Year”, p.237, InterVarsity Press

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• Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

  Dalida

  Forgive Me, Unbearable

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• Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?

  Richard Siken

  Horrible, Staring

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• If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Errors, Commit, Ifs

  "The Promulgation of Universal Peace". Book by Abdu'l-Bahá, reference.bahai.org. 1922.

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• Trust that whatever you are dealing with, whatever doorway to crisis you experience, it is leading you to a greater lesson in liwing where ideally the power of love is what you learn. Forgive, and broadcast your excitement to be alive.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Love Is, Alive, Lessons

  Barbara Marciniak (1998). “Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living”, p.101, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• The challenge of life is regretless decision making, relentless pursuit of vision with faith, forgiving others, enduring pain with a smile & achieving goals with an extra MILE

  Sujit Lalwani

  Pain, Goal, Decision

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