Forgiveness Quotes

“Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.”

“When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.”

“How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them!”

“Don't regret what's happened.If it's in the past, LET IT GO.Don't even remember it!”

“You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!”

“All forgiveness is self forgiveness.”

“Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.”

“Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.”

“There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.”

“If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.”

“Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.”

“Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.”

“When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.”

“The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.”

“Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.”

“The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person - yesterday ended last night.”

“There are no justified resentments.”

“Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past”

“Drink down all unkindness.”

“I humbly do beseech of your pardon, For too much loving you”

“Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.”

“Regardless of your past, your tomorrow is a clean slate.”

“Look Back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion and up in gratitude.”

“In order to forgive, you must have blamed.”

“You practice forgiveness for two reasons: to let others know that you no longer wish to be in a state of hostility with them and to free yourself from the self-defeating energy of resentment. Send love in some form to those you feel have wronged you and notice how much better you feel.”