Quotes About Forgiveness

A few quotes about forgiveness that I found. I have been struggling with forgiveness a lot lately. Alright, more like I have struggled with forgiveness my whole life. I have held grudges. I have trouble letting things go. I can hold on to things that bother me and upset me for a long time. I can feel like one day I can forgive something or someone but then maybe the next day or later on it still bothers me and upsets me. I end up thinking negative about it or the situation again so I was in need of some inspirational quotes to help me think more about forgiving.

"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love." ~ Bryant H. McGill


"Forgiveness is the final form of love. "~ Reinhold Niebuhr


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


"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom." ~ Hannah Arendt


"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on." ~ Alice Duer Miller


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


"My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person." ~ Janine Turner


"It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited." ~ Lewis B. Smedes


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

“Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.” ~ Sara Paddison quotes

“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.” ~ Lewis B. Smedes quotes

“Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.” ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” ~ Paul Boese

“Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace” ~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

"Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.” ~ Saint Augustine quotes

"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were." --Cherie Carter-Scott

"Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die."—Nelson Mandela

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." --William Blake

"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own." --Jessamyn West

"Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me." --Anonymous

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"-- Abraham Lincoln

"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love." --Mahatma Gandhi

"Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare." - Lance Morrow

"Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future." ~ Louis B. Smedes

"When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it." ~ Louis B. Smedes