Forgiveness Quotes
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“Not "Forgive us for our sins" but "Smite us for our iniquities" should be the prayer of man to a most just God.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“Forgive me if I never visit. I am from the fields, you know, and while quite at home with the dandelions, make a sorry figure in a drawing room.”
Quote by -Emily Dickinson
“When we refuse to forgive, we are in disobedience to God’s Word. We open a door for Satan to start all kinds of trouble in our lives. We hinder the flow of love toward others. Our faith is blocked and our prayers are hindered. We are miserable and lose our joy. Our attitudes are poisoned and we spew the poison onto everyone we meet. The price we pay to hang on to our bitter feelings is definitely not worth it. Unforgiveness does have devastating effects, so do yourself a favor… forgive!”
Quote by -Joyce Meyer
“You may have heard the saying, “Refusing to forgive is like drinking poison and hoping it kills the other person.”
Quote by -Joyce Meyer
“If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins. MATTHEW 6:14–15 NLT”
Quote by -Joyce Meyer
Look back in forgiveness, forward in hope, down in compassion, and up with gratitude.
Quote by -Zig Ziglar
A man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man’s acts.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
With what are you discontented? With the badness of men? Recall to your mind this conclusion, that rational animals exist for one another, and that to endure is a part of justice, and that men do wrong involuntarily.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
When you are offended at any man’s fault, immediately turn to yourself and reflect in what manner you yourself have erred: for example, in thinking that money is a good thing or pleasure, or a bit of reputation, and the like.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
You don’t have to turn this into something. It doesn’t have to upset you. Things can’t shape our decisions by themselves.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
If they’ve injured you, then they’re the ones who suffer for it. But have they?
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
I do what is mine to do; the rest doesn’t disturb me. The rest is inanimate, or has no logos, or it wanders at random and has lost the road.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Let it happen, if it wants, to whatever it can happen to. And what’s affected can complain about it if it wants. It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
To live in peace, immune to all compulsion. Let them scream whatever they want.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Consider that you also do many things wrong, and that you are a man like others; and even if you do abstain from certain faults, still you have the disposition to commit them, though either through cowardice, or concern about reputation, or some such mean motive, you abstain from such faults.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
No time for reading. For controlling your arrogance, yes. For overcoming pain and pleasure, yes. For outgrowing ambition, yes. For not feeling anger at stupid and unpleasant people – even for caring about them – for that, yes.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
To be angry at something means you’ve forgotten: That everything that happens is natural. That the responsibility is theirs, not yours.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds.
Quote by -Marcus Aurelius
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
Quote by -Mark Twain
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
Quote by -Plato
“The Church Fathers teach us that a shattered heart is the most pleasing gift to God. It is the sign that we are conscious of our sins, of the evil we have done, of our wretchedness, and of our need for forgiveness and mercy.”
Quote by -Pope Francis
“The Church must be a place of mercy freely given, where everyone can feel welcomed, loved, forgiven, and encouraged to live the good life of the Gospel.”
Quote by -Pope Francis
“God forgives not with a decree but with a caress. Jesus too goes beyond the law and forgives by caressing the wounds of our sins.”
Quote by -Pope Francis
“Pius XII, more than half a century ago, said that the tragedy of our age was that it had lost its sense of sin, the awareness of sin. Today we add further to the tragedy by considering our illness, our sins, to be incurable, things that cannot be healed or forgiven.”
Quote by -Pope Francis
“Spreading the Gospel means that we are the first to proclaim and live the reconciliation, forgiveness, peace, unity, and love that the Holy Spirit gives us.”
Quote by -Pope Francis
“Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving God. Just by looking at him, just raising our eyes from ourselves and our wounds, we leave an opening for the action of his grace. Jesus performs miracles with our sins, with what we are, with our nothingness, with our wretchedness.”
Quote by -Pope Francis
Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.”
Quote by -Margaret Atwood
“Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain’t nothing, don’t believe him. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.”
Quote by -Tupac
“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”
Quote by -Oprah Winfrey
“Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.”
Quote by -C.S. Lewis
“I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.”
Quote by -C.S. Lewis
Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.
Quote by -Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us."
Quote by -Stephen R. Covey