Forgiveness Quotes

“Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” – Hannah Arendt
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” – Mark Twain
“Forgiving is not forgetting; it’s letting go of the hurt.” – Mary McLeod Bethune
“Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.” – George MacDonald
“Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God.” – Joyce Meyer
“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr
“The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.” – Unknown
“Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it’s a personal life or a national life.” – Hillary Clinton
“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.” – William Paul Young
“Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.” – Phillips Brooks
“Forgiving is rediscovering the shining path of peace that at first you thought others took away when they betrayed you.” – Dodinsky
“Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.” – Josh McDowell
“Forgiveness is not something we do for others, it’s something we do for ourselves.” – Unknown
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” – Lewis B. Smedes
“Forgiveness is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.” – Unknown
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.” – Indira Gandhi
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” – Paul Boese.
“Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the heart and cools the sting.” – William Arthur Ward
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.” – Corrie ten Boom
“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.” – Marianne Williamson
“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.” – Les Brown
“Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it’s something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it’s to release yourself from the prison of resentment or anger.” – Unknown
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past, but you sure do change the future.” – Bernard Meltzer
“Forgiveness is the act of admitting that we are like other people.” – Christina Baldwin
“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” – Alexander Pope
“Without forgiveness, there’s no future.” – Desmond Tutu
“We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven.” – Martha Kilpatrick
“Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.” – Lily Tomlin
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.” – Marianne Williamson
“Forgiveness is not always easy, but it is necessary.” – Unknown
“Forgiveness is not about forgetting, it is about letting go of another person’s throat.” – William Paul Young
“Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear. That’s why it’s such a powerful weapon.” – Nelson Mandela
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” – Marianne Williamson