Forgiveness Quotes

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.
Gerald Jampolsky

Peace, Past, Means

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

Another, Chance, Beginning

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake

Religion, Conquer, Glory

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams

Revenge, Nothing, Quite

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
Billy Graham

Year, Days, High

Here is the amazing thing about Easter; the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.
T. D. Jakes

Easter, Amazing, Greatest

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?
Bell Hooks

Time, Humanity, Enough

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie Ten Boom

Heart, Act, Function

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Roberto Assagioli

Life, Resentment, Endless

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

God, Experience, Through

You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
Nicole Kidman

Respect, Anger, Children

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
Keira Knightley

Live, Away, Ask

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
Madeleine L'Engle

Life, Love, Faith

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
Desmond Tutu

Sun, Order, Open

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
Marianne Williamson

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Ignorance, Sin, Redemption

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Desmond Tutu

Angry, Revenge, Before

Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
T. D. Jakes

Yourself, Past, Rather

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
Abdul Qadeer Khan

Love, Angry, Allah

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
T. D. Jakes

Strong, Person, Forgive

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden

Society, Place, Unique

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.
Carlos Santana

Music, Kindness, Down

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.
Mark Wahlberg

Good, Mistakes, Sleep

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.
Rick Perry

God, Power, Fact

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