Forgiveness - Quotes & Sayings

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Jean Paul

Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with 'deserve.'

Eric Metaxas

Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

Brennan Manning

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

Sue Monk Kidd

For me, the healing process starts with graciousness and forgiveness.

India Arie

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Marianne Williamson

As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are deepening forgiveness and compassion for ourselves. And in life, we find we might make a mistake, and more easily begin again, or stray from our chosen course and begin again.

Sharon Salzberg

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Arthur Balfour

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

Lana Turner

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Mary Boykin Chesnut

It's always best to ask for forgiveness if you feel that you made a mistake. And again, asking for forgiveness is not just saying the words 'I'm sorry'; it is also offering what you need to do.

Grace Poe

These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well below cost.

Norm Dicks

The Eucharist is an opportunity of grace and conversion. It's also a time of forgiveness of sins, so my hope would be that grace would be instrumental in bringing people to the truth.

Blase J. Cupich

Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

Mackenzie Phillips

There are curveballs that are thrown at you, and you just have to get over it and forgive... if you believe you're perfect, and you don't believe in forgiveness, you're not meant to be married.

Kendra Wilkinson

The Dalai Lama's entire being is about peace and harmony, forgiveness and self-discipline. Those are qualities to be admired. I am really looking forward to meeting His Holiness.

Joe Nichols

If you're truthful with yourself and others, forgiveness clears the path to righteousness, to grace. All we want is grace. We all want that light in our lives. And we can only get that when we go deep into truth.

Corbin Bernsen

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

Andrea Thompson

People have to render judgment. In my case, I've said upfront openly, I've made mistakes at times. I've had to go to God for forgiveness. I've had to seek reconciliation. But I'm also a 68-year-old grandfather, and I think people have to measure who I am now and whether I'm a person they can trust.

Newt Gingrich

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.

Joyce Meyer

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Elbert Hubbard

Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.

Tyler Perry

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.

Tyler Perry

I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.

Hillary Clinton

I believe in forgiveness; I believe in trying to work with people.

John Lewis

We need Grace and forgiveness.

Pope Benedict XVI

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

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

Bernard Baruch

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

Lewis B. Smedes

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness.

Lewis B. Smedes

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

Richard Rohr

I believe in forgiveness, I believe in second chances, and I believe we should find a way to restore the Second Amendment rights to people who are qualified and have shown themselves qualified to have those rights restored to them.

Matt Bevin

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Jonathan Sacks

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

Aleksandar Hemon

God makes it really clear that society and civilization is really held together by the glue of families... When a man and a woman come together and say 'I do,' they are committing for a lifetime to love each other and to model what love is and what forgiveness is and what joy is to their kids.

Kirk Cameron

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

Mario Batali

I believe in the redemptive need to admit mistakes, express regret, and ask for forgiveness.

Ana Navarro

As our nation's student debt crisis has reached a breaking point, we've been hearing lots of talk about student loan forgiveness. It's taken me 20 years to forgive myself for my loan - and just as long to pay it off.

Camille Perri

By their innocence and goodness, by their boundless capacity for forgiveness, and by the sheer power of their faith and hope, children redeem their parents, bringing out their best selves.

Cass Sunstein

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Jose Bergamin

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

Harlan Coben

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

William Brewster

I really do believe that God is love, one of deep affection and grace and forgiveness and inspiration.

William P. Young

Forgiveness is a spiritual practice and biblical mandate from the New Testament that many American Christians engage in as a part of their faith.

Anthea Butler

No poem in the world could do my mom justice. Despite circumstance and adversity, she had an unwavering love for her kids and a faith-based, boundless capacity for forgiveness.

Ed Schultz

Forgiveness is hard for me, man. It is for most American-Western males. It's a sign of weakness.

Art Alexakis

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

Janine Turner

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.

Scott Stapp