Forgiveness Quotes

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

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

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.